Serial Number: P0205
Status: Display
Description:
This is a vintage porcelain opium pipe with stand. Purchased by RAF during his London trip last July 2-19, 2019.
An opium pipe is a pipe designed for the evaporation and inhalation of opium. True opium pipes allow for the drug to be vaporized while being heated over a special oil lamp known as an opium lamp. It is thought that this manner of smoking opium began in the seventeenth century when a special pipe was developed that vaporized opium instead of burning it.
