Eduard Bird
Eduard Bird (or Edward/Evert Burt; c. 1610 – 20 May 1665) was an English tobacco pipe maker who spent most of his life in Amsterdam.
[4] She was supported by her sister, Magdalena, who had been born in Alkmaar and later remarried a tobacco pipe maker on the Lauriergracht.
[2] In 1644 Bird and his wife undertook to teach the 13-year-old son of one Lowijs Jonas how to make tobacco pipes.
[8] In 1645 Bird purchased a modest house in the new Jordaan development between the town wall and the outer canal, on the corner of Egelantiersgracht and the last cross street.
Newton was an officer in the service of Petrus Stuyvesant on a voyage to New Netherland, and needed the money to buy his equipment.
His son inherited his property, and his widow was granted to live the rest of her life in the house on the Lauriergracht.
[14] The inventory includes 1+1⁄2 hogsheads of sugar shipped in exchange for 12 cases of pipes unloaded at Malta.
[2] The pipes have a distinctive maker's mark on the heel, consisting of the raised letters "EB" surrounded by a circle of triangles.
[10] Thus the Nan A. Rothschild Research Center has a fragment of a white ball clay smoking bowl and attached stem with the EB mark on its heel, found during the excavation for 7 Hanover Square in lower Manhattan.
[15] They are the most common type of pipe bearing a maker's mark unearthed in Fort Orange (New Netherland).
[19] "EB" pipes have been recovered from shipwrecks such as the Dutch East Indiaman Kennemerland (1664) and the Santo Christo de Castello (1667).
[21] The pipes have been found in a mid-17th century home in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
[3] In 1911 Frank Wachter excavated 15 artifacts from an Indian burial site on the outskirts of Trenton, New Jersey.
[22] They include an "EB" white ball clay tobacco pipe with a stem bore diameter of 7⁄16 of an inch.
