Fort Ancient Carved Stone Smoking Pipe (Auction 2026-06-05, Lot 96A)

$385.50

A hand-shaped sandstone pipe with a conical bowl rising from a sharply angled stem, the mouthpiece end tapering to a point, worked from a coarse-grained gray sandstone with a naturally granular surface. Fort Ancient elbow pipes of this simple form are among the most characteristic smoking implements of the late prehistoric Ohio Valley, used in both everyday and ceremonial contexts by one of the last major prehistoric cultures of the region before European contact.

Retains an original find site label identifying provenance as the Fuert Site, Ohio, collected in 1967, predating the site’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

Provenance: private Colorado, USA Collection; ex-private Denver, Colorado, USA collection; ex-private Flushing, New York and Ridgeway, Colorado, USA collection

Condition: Good. Minor abrasions, but otherwise intact. old inventory number written on the surface, and find site label.