EditorialPipe Stopper, 1700-1800. Made in England. This carved boxwood pipe tamper is English, and dates from the eighteenth century. Tampers, or pipe stoppers, are used by smokers to press down the tobacco in their pipes. This is needed to ensure that the toba...
EditorialNear East. Mesopotamia. Sumer. Bulla (seal). Inscribed pieces of clay by used by the Sumerians in 8th millennia BC. Used for agricultural transaction as a form of identification and for tamper-proofing. Bullae with seal impressions. Lagash. Presargonic...
EditorialNear East. Mesopotamia. Sumer. Bulla (seal). Inscribed pieces of clay by used by the Sumerians in 8th millennia BC. Used for agricultural transaction as a form of identification and for tamper-proofing. Bullae with seal impressions. Lagash. Presargonic...