Personalized Tobacco Pipes Found at Jamestown

(Natty Geo) Bearing perhaps the earliest printing in English America, fragments of 400-year-old personalized pipes have been found at Virginia's Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, archaeologists say.
Stamped with the names of Sir Walter Raleigh and other eminent men back in England, the pipes may have been intended to impress investors—underscoring Jamestown's fundamentally commercial nature. Continued

Print: Detail from label of E. Goodwin & Brother's Spanish mixed smoking tobacco, c1848 (Library of Congress).