Antique Polish Brigand Pipe Parsivas Highlanders Pipe Brass Clay Wood Trench Art

Antique Polish Brigand Pipe Parsivas

The highlanders of the Podhale region were also famous for making pipes, where this branch of the craft developed intensively at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A highlander's pipe consisted of a clay chimney covered with a thin brass or alpaca sheet, covered by a convex, hinged lid, and a short, wooden, curved cap. At the end of the 19th century, decorative forms of pipes appeared, in which the clay chimney was entirely clad in sheet metal covered with fine ornamentation and provided with a convex lid topped with a button (cub) or silhouette of a rooster (kohut). The pipe's chimney was connected to the wooden cigarette butt with thin chains (recios). These pipes were called "brigand pipes" or parsivas.

Used. As pictured.

One sold recently as trench art.