Hart’s Prehistoric Pipe Rack Volume #1

Prehistoric Pipes of the Mississippi Riverways --- East

Written by Gordon Hart - 1978

Gordon Hart was a pioneer in the field of electronics and medical electronics engineering in northeastern Indiana for some fifty plus years. This technical background helped prepare him for a lifetime of study, collecting and writing of prehistoric artworks. He began his artifact collecting with a self-found arrowhead on his grandfather’s farm in 1924, and continued to collect prehistoric objects throughout his entire lifetime. In the early 1960s he began bringing together a major collection of prehistoric smoking pipes, and continued building this concentration for some forty odd years. Hart’s Prehistoric Pipe Rack Volume #1 was written after having amassed a collection of some three hundred unique prehistoric pipes. The book features articles and pictures of approximately 100 different pipes from Archaic to through early Historic Periods, originating from the Central and Eastern United States. Features include:

1. Written by Gordon Hart in the mid-1970s, published in 1978, first addition.
2. Brown hardbound leatherette cover with gold colored embossing.
3. 272 pages (8 ½ x 11) with approximately 300 photos of prehistoric and some historic pipes.
4. 22 pages of color.
5. Approximately 100 articles of prehistoric pipes originating from the Mississippi Waterways eastward.
6. A must reference if interested in great prehistoric art, archaic pipe collecting or pipe and tobacco studies.