Ten Peter Dorni pipe fragments were recovered from the Stanwix Hall Hotel site, all from the hotel privy. No Peter Dorni pipes were found elsewhere at the site.
Most Peter Dorni pipes are marked as having been produced in Gouda, a leading center of clay tobacco pipe production in the Netherlands. The Prince pipe company produced Peter Dorni pipes between 1835 and 1898 in Gouda. However, the origin of the Peter Dorni name is attributed to a French pipe manufacturer named Peter Dornier. The Prince pipe company bought the name from the French manufacturer in about 1835 and began producing the pipes.
But the story does not end there. The first producer of pipes in this style came from the Westerwald district of Germany, long associated with ceramic production. A German manufacturer named Peter Dorn lived in the city of Grenzhausen in the Westerwald during the eighteenth century and produced the pipes there. It was only later that the pipes were made in France and later still in the Netherlands (JMA 2000:35; Kügler 1989; Humphrey 1969:15).
Humphrey, Richard V. 1969 Clay Pipes from Old Sacramento. Historical Archaeology 3(1):12-33.
JMA (John Milner Associates, Inc.) 2000 Tales of Five Points: Working Class Life in Nineteenth Century New York: Volume VI The Long and the Short, Being a Compendium of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century Clay Tobacco Pipes from the Five Points Site, Block 160, New York City. By Paul F. Reckner and Diane Dallal.
. Kügler, Martin 1989 Clay Pipes made by the Dorn family. KnasterKOPF 1:3-16. digital summary www.knasterkopf.de/htm/he01.htm 11/12/02