juanmedusa
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I have a friend that was a burgeoning pipe smoker (though her frequency has declined of late) and is a collector of all things odd. She and her husband bought a home recently and they had us over. We go in and are checking out the place. This is actually the second time we went over but on the first they hadn't really unpacked. I of course see old pipes and racks on a shelf and go check those out. I didn't see her roster of pipes she was smoking but other stuff that she picked up and just had. Older uncleaned pipes and racks she wasn't putting her premier pipes on. There was one of those pipe racks that holds pipes on the left and right with a tobacco box in the middle and there was another straight pipe rack. I'm just checking it out and then I look up one shelf and I see it! I'm like "What!"
"Oh, I didn't show you that before?"
"I have never seen that before."
So she was at an antique store and found a folk art pipe rack. It's a "negro child" motif and the creator thought the charm of it would be to make it as though the pipes were her legs. This is a really interesting piece. It immediately makes you begin to think. It's shocking for me to think about a time when "negro child" was a design and sometimes advertising motif but I know from various pieces that was the case. Here it is in all its glory (shame).
"Oh, I didn't show you that before?"
"I have never seen that before."
So she was at an antique store and found a folk art pipe rack. It's a "negro child" motif and the creator thought the charm of it would be to make it as though the pipes were her legs. This is a really interesting piece. It immediately makes you begin to think. It's shocking for me to think about a time when "negro child" was a design and sometimes advertising motif but I know from various pieces that was the case. Here it is in all its glory (shame).