The Chinese Opium Pipe
The one seen on this photo is part of a collection that my family possesses, no longer in use, it’s more of a decorative piece now. Have you seen one before this?
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The one seen on this photo is part of a collection that my family possesses, no longer in use, it’s more of a decorative piece now. Have you seen one before this?
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Wow! So cool to have it as part of your family’s personal collection. It’s a rare antique now, hard to come by.
Haven’t seen a real opium pipe before. Only in pics, old chinese style movies and anime XD
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You can actually find quite a number of it in Hong Kong but they are fake though. Can clearly see as those will have some modern stamps at the bottom of the pipe indicating place of production. LOL
But this real deal, definitely going to be kept for as long as we’re alive.
i remember seeing 1 in my parents’ home
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Make sure you keep it. Will worth quite a bit as there’s not many left that’s properly working.
Hey, that’s a really cool item. Very nice, I wish my family had one.
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I wonder…. if the smell of the opium is still there or not?
I may have seen it at a friend’s place when I was a kid. I thought it was more like for small kids to drink from. LOL!
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whoa classic item sia hahaha
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Michel,, I would like to send you some photos of my opium pipe. It stll has all the tools required to use it and all the chains. Done in closinne. I slso have an original hand carved Chinese opium bed that is enclosed on 3 sides with carved scenes and the canopy top. I just need the address and I will send photos of both.
Thanks
Calvin
I have a,what appears to be a very old opium pipe,has a asian stamp on side,if i wanted to sell it ,could anyone send me info?Thanks,sandntoes05@yahoo.com
I have a very old opium pipe with etching on both sides with all accessories. Could you give me an appraised value if I send you a picture of it? Thanks for any help.
i just bought a pipe like in the picture with accesory tweezers and pick, and a couple of different lenght tubes I’m not sure what they are. has engrasvings of a buffalo and old man crossing bridge. happy to share images
Have seen other sights refer to this as a tobacco rather than opium pipe
Looks wonderful! Too bad the Buddha carving on the side is weared.
Could be have a picture of the inside? I wonder how they heated the opium and what was the function of the spring…
Sorry to disappoint you, but this particular pipe is *not* used for opium. Its a traditional Chinese water-tobacco pipe. It is a lovely object, and a good example of how Chinese culture refined pleasures to the utmost degree, in this case tobacco, but also doing the same in the case of opium. The West medicalised opium, devised the syringe and refined the drug to morphine and heroin, while the Orient devised the opium pipe, the smoking of which is a not harmful, and is a sociable activity.
Your pipe is sadly no use for smoking opium, because firstly the morphine content of the opium is soluble, and would dissolve in the water box. Second, and more importantly, opium is not truly “smoked” but rather its vaporised, for which you need a pipe with a wide flat bowl, on which, by using a long metal pin a ball of opium is rolled around in the flame of a lamp. Plugging a lump of opium into the bowl of this pipe, and applying flame would waste most of it, just burning it up to ash. The lip of the pipe is too thin to “roll”, [as its called], a pipe of opium round its edge, exposing it to the flame, thereby emitting its narcotic vapour. Beautiful object, nonetheless!
I want to buy the opium pipe and want to use it material for other hobby activity.
I hve just bought a water-tobacco pipe with long tweezers and a roll of string in the barrel. It is a metal pipe with cloisonne casing. Does anyone know what I could get for it please? Thanks
I have two that my father got during WW II.
I also have two that my grand father got during WW II