19th C. Meerschaum Pipe with Figurehead-esque Female Bust 2 pound weight and "Abandon Evil Company" (in

and "Abandon Evil Company" (in wonderful gothic lettering) are pages of individual letters and numbers and

in an old wooden box they pack into quite nicely

and sharing of woes

Works great and certainly well suited for mood lighting

The wood on the box here has seen better days

19th C. Meerschaum Pipe with Figurehead-esque Female Bust 2 pound weight and "Abandon Evil Company" (inWhile I pass most by most, occasionally I come across on antique meerschaum pipe that I really fall in love with, and this is very much one of those. What a face! She looks to me rather like a lioness, and a bit of a sphynx too, and she's arched like the figurehead of a ship, with little cluster of flowers at the tip of the bow. My guess is earlier than later 19th c. on her, but I'm not an expert. (Meerschaum pipes were carved of the mineral