Denmark Danish carver Preben Holm was perhaps the most bright and inspiring person in history of pipe making. He sold his first pipes before his 16 birthday. Preben Holm was one of most significant inventors and developers of “Danish pipe design” and many smokers and enthusiasts respect him as a father of freehand pipes.
England A nicely made English pipe. The heavy bowled bent shape and cross cut grain look quite similar to Charatan’s products from 1960’s, but the pipe is just a beautiful item regardless its origin. And the dark spot on the bowl’s back doesn’t prevent a smoking pleasure.
Italy While one of the most popular W.O. Larsen series was named “Cognac”, Italian manufacturer preferred another drink, much more expressive and much more southern – champagne! The “champagne” pipes were successfully produced since 1980’s and they remind the legendary sparkling wine by the specific color of stain.
England One of the popular, unambitious and affordable pipes made on the John Redman factory in London in 1950-60’s. Draw attention to the large and convincing metallic air cooler of a spoon shape – it’s very typical for many Redman’s products from that time.
Denmark, 1970s A wonderful freehand pipe made by the legendary Danish artisan Preben Holm in 1970s. Initially Ben Wade was an old good English family manufactory. Soon after the WWII the brand was acquired by Lane Ltd from USA, the producer of fantastic Charatan’s pipes at that time. The new Ben Wade era (“Danish Ben…
England, 1960s The pipe seems to be one of the very first Lane era sandblasted pipes: despite the “Lane” stamping (a shape number with the “X”) the deep and “wild” sandblasted finish is rather specific for family era production. The shape (such a bent stack) is very rare and was named “Burlington” in shape charts.
England The pipe belongs to one of the most successful and popular series produced on the John Redman pipe factory in London in the middle of the XX century. A good smoker with nice grain and quite rare and really attractive shape – volcano. The bowl had a few indentations, mostly on the bottom –…
England, 1950-70s L&A Orlik was a well known manufacturer of great quality and at the same time inexpensive pipes since the end of XIX century till añquisition by Cadogan in 1980. Despite more advanced management and technology level of Cadogan Group’s production these pipes from pre-cadogan era made without Hi-Tech tricks but with love are…
England, 1960s Charatan’s Authentic is a very rare series similar to the “Special” but finished with much more contrast stain. This “Authentic” of the unique 483 shape did require more efforts than usual: there were some dents and a small surface neat crack on the bowl and a chip in the button. Of course all…
England, 1980-90s Almost every pipe needs a stand, so why not to combine the stand and the pipe itself? Looks very useful for a man whose desk is covered with reports, diagrams, financial magazines and whatever else we can imagine 🙂 A beautiful and fresh implementation of this idea from the 1980-90’s made by Comoy’s….