1/2 OPIUM PIPE WITH CARVED IVORY STEM, INCISED AND PAINTED WITH LANDSCAPE SCENES, FRUIT, & PLANT IMAGES. NEAR THE MOUTH PIECE IS A SIGNATURE SEAL AND AN INSCRIPTION WHICH TRANSLATES APPROXIMATELY AS: ...

This ornate ivory pipe is engraved with figures and scenes and the terracotta bowl is decorated with a pottery frog and enamelled flowers. Heated opium would have been placed in the top of this bowl ...

Let’s face it: not many people come to Thailand for the museums. Bangkok’s thousands of night-life venues are high on the list of attractions, but fewer visitors feel an obligation to view the ...

How many times this week had he gone to see the dragon? Five? Six? Ten? Fitz had lost count. But he reckoned he went to the den almost every night and paid Ton, the scraggly opium dealer with a ...

2005-10-28 04:00:00 PDT Sam Neua, Laos-- Since doctors confiscated Kua Ya's opium pipe in February, the septuagenarian grandmother has been forced to do without her usual six pipes a night to ease her ...

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