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Little Long Chinese Opium Pipe   Quantity in Basket: none Code: ga4662 Price: $20.99 Shipping Weight: 68.00 grammes Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Little Long Chinese Opium Pipe'. Please check back later.         This little brass opium pipe measures 8 1/2 inches long with the bowl 20mm diameter. Pictures show two views of the same pipe. Although decrative, this pipe actually works! Two-hundred years ago Britain started selling the Chinese opium from British India to balance London trade deficit of Chinese tea and silks. China didnt 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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