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May 27, 2012 11:12 am PDT
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Jewelry made from 19th century clay pipes washed up on the Thames
Today I found myself at a street-market in Soho (the one in London), at a stall belonging to Amelia Parker, a jewelry maker who salvages fragments of century-old clay pipes from the banks of the Thames. Clay pipes were once the equivalent of cigarettes, cheap, semi-disposable tobacco-distribution systems, and as they were very brittle, they [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oWCKYMw2gNU/jewelry-made-from-19th-century.html
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