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information. Mr. Robert Rau, of that place, is my
authority for the statement that plain pipe-bowls, some
white and some green, made without stems, were pro-
duced by these people probably within the first decade of
this century. Long-stemmed pipes seem to have been
superseded by bowls about that time, and during the
ensuing thirty years or so numerous local potteries
throughout Pennsylvania and other sections took up this
branch of manufacture.
About the year 18io Adam Maize, of New Berlin,
Union County (then Northumberland), Pa., was making
pipe-bowls in the form of a man's head, and prior to 1825,
when he quit the business to enter politics, Philip See-
bold, who had learned his trade with Maize, made the
same style of bowl. The manufacture, however, was con-
tinued at both potteries until about 1845, when outside
competition caused it to cease.
Previous to 1830 Christian Evil and Charles Zorn had
potteries in Berlin, Somerset County, Pa., where they
made pipe-bowls in the form of a man's head. Jacob
Swope owned a pottery one mile north of Bird-in-Hand,
Lancaster County, Pa., about 1820. His son, Zuriel
Swope, happened one day when a lad, as he was passing
along a street in Lancaster, to see one of the black-glazed
pipe-bowls from Berlin in the window of a jeweller's shop,
and, attracted by its novelty, went in and purchased it for
three cents. He then commenced making similar bowls
at his father's pottery. His first mould was constructed
of lead, which, proving too soft, was replaced by one
made of block tin. He manufactured, without assistance,

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