Sold Diminutive, Very Folky Carved Pipe with Face, Found in Maine ruby rub I love an antique Staffordshire

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Sold Diminutive, Very Folky Carved Pipe with Face, Found in Maine ruby rub I love an antique StaffordshireA curious, very small carved pipe, well smoked, carved of one piece of wood, which looks to me like burl or root wood, with very folky face, looking almost as if melting or hallucinating! Found in inland Maine and with what seems a good bit of age to it. And with what looks like a small plug or reinforcement along the bottom, of the same wood, perhaps attached by sap now hardened like glue, I'm not quite sure. I really love the form of it, and that