Price: $1625

A very handsome smokable presentation French and Indian War (F&I) pipe tomahawk with cast pewter inlay.

The finely-decorated pipe tomahawk blade is forged and filed to shape. The tall hexagonal pipe bowl has a banded rim and base sitting on a filed rounded neck, resting on a rounded chevron. Iron rivet heads adorn the sides of the eye. The blade molding is filed in high relief. The bottom of the blade has a deep arc and beard with a heat-treated, sharpened bit. The blade has a satin polish and is patinated. The blade spine has decorative filework.

The cap is threaded, with a turned Thuya wood and threaded copper clean-out plug. The highly-figured curly maple haft is carved with vertical reeds on the lower half, separated by two cast-in filed pewter bands. The upper half has five cast-in pewter bands and chevrons beneath the blade. The haft terminates with a turned section and Thuya wood stem. The wood is treated with aqua fortis, stained dark and finished with several coats of hand-rubbed oil.

(Note: Sadly, my photograghs do not capture the shimmering, three-dimensional effect of the maple curl).

The blade is 7.5" long with a 3" edge, and the overall length is 21" long.
 

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