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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 2589643, member: 12007&quot;]Just an FYI - there was a large Chinatown in my city back in the late 19thc and a few years ago opium pipe bowls would show up at garage sales once in a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>Opium pipe bowls look like small vases or bottles except they have a small hole on the bottom and the bottom is polished and convex. Of course if you turn them upside down (rightside up!) they aren&#039;t vases at all - and the bottom is the top! </p><p>They are almost mushroom shaped and the &quot;neck&quot; of the &quot;vase&quot; fits into hole in the pipe stem, sitting there like a mushroom. The smoker smears the polished &quot;bottom&quot; with the sticky opium and holds the &quot;bowl&quot; to a flame from a small spirit lamp and as the opium smokes, the smoke is drawn in through the small hole.</p><p><br /></p><p>this one is similar although most of what we would find would be slightly different but like this one, usually Yixing ware.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]270982[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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