Tuesday, January 20, 2026

'SMOKED FISH, ANYONE?'.......a Mississippean carved limestone (?) Effigy smoking pipe, discovered in North Georgia

                                        

                                                    I found this heavy pipe, thrown into a shoe box at the old Lakewood Fairgrounds Antique Show.....40 years ago.....The Dealer bought it because he collected 'fish-related' antiques...like old fishing lures, nets, rods & reels and taxidermied bass and trout.....I traded him an antique red Shakespeare  Spin Cast Reel,  a fiberglass rod  and the remainder of Tony Hoover's father's hand-tied fishing flies......