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Classic Qing Chinese Bone Opium Pipe   Quantity in Basket: none Code: ga4519 Price: $55.00 Shipping Weight: 690.00 grammes In stock       Quantity:   This heavy opium pipe measures just over 16-inches, quite long. Bowl measures 1.5-inches x 1.5-inch diameter. Crafted from heavy buffalo bone with light carvings of Chinese figures on the stem. For decoration or collection, but is actually functional. We only have one of these pipes left, and it is in the UK ready to mail. Two-hundred years ago Britain started selling the Chinese opium from British India – to balance London’s trade deficit of Chinese tea and silks. China didn’t like foreigners’ breaking their laws and causing widespread drug addiction. The destruction of 20,000 chests of opium in Guangzhou resulted, after British aggression, in Hong Kong becoming a crown colony

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