Andersonville POW Carved Folk Art Pipe Identified to Albert A. Walker, 16th Connecticut Infantry

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• Lot Description

  Dark brown folk art carved pipe with very lovely grained wood, most likely laurel root. Both the top of the bowl (entire width of the flat top) and the top of the shank are fitted with German silver mounts. In contrast with Lots 102 and 104, this is the only example with original German silver mountings. Front of pipe features motif comprised of a large carved circular panel having a high relief large five point star at its center. The wide border surrounding that star contains the name of the party for whom the pipe was made, carved in high relief letters, Albert A. Walker, with the incised carved date at bottom of that panel 1864. Below the panel at the very bottom of the bowl and curving around to the underside is a very large, well carved American shield with stars and stripes. The right side of the pipe has a large, curved panel running from the shank to the top of the bowl with the large relief carved words, Sumter Prison. Unlike Lots 102 and 104, the right side, near the top of the bowl (above the Sumter prison description) includes another smaller relief carved five point star. The left side of this pipe features a curved large panel and the relief carved letters, Andersonville, GA, as well as a five point star that is identical to that on the right side. The pipe's empty spaces are filled with cross hatched and diagonal decorative motifs (all incised). Maximum width approx. 2.5 in.; bowl height 2.5 in., dia. 1.5 in.

  This is the first of the Andersonville pipes Mr. Flayderman acquired in the late 1950s. It is also identical to the example illustrated in his book Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders: Whales and Whalemen, published in 1972.

  Albert A. Walker enlisted as a private on August 24, 1862 and mustered into the 16th Connecticut Infantry, Co. F. He fought at the battle of Antietam and Fredericksburg. Eventually, he was promoted to commanding sergeant of Co. F on May 9, 1863. He was listed as a POW on March 20, 1864 at Plymouth, NC, and was most likely sent to Andersonville, remaining there until he was paroled on November 30, 1864.

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  Lots 102-104

  Three extremely rare and historic wood pipes with identical motifs that seem to have been created by the same Union prisoner at Andersonville prison in Georgia. The three pipes were purchased by Mr. Flayderman over a very lengthy period of time, with the first one acquired in the 1950s and the last in 2001. Mr. Flayderman's research indicates that a fourth pipe carved in the same style also exists. 

  
  
  Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.

  Condition

  Inventory number painted in white along rim of shank. Short crack extending through "G" in "GA." Another crack near rim of shank. Some light surface wear, few scratches/ nicks. some light tarnish on silver. 
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