Netherlands, 2000s Creative people are usually creative in many respects. German car designer Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, father of the very first Porsche 911 was also an all day pipe smoker and along with cars he designed in 1980s a pipe series “Porsche Design” for himself. The first version was produced by Oldenkott (Germany) in two…
Denmark A high grade pipe from the world famous Danish tobacconist made in the 1980s. Great briar, attractive grain, perfect engineering, refined and indeed Danish shape – we can find no fault with this piece of art! There were many legendary pipe carvers working for W.Ø. Larsen and it’s usually difficult to say who exactly…
Denmark A relatively young and moderately smoked Nording pipe of the quite high grade. There were different grading system applied over the years, but 1 is always the highest grade (currently the freehand grades go from 1 thru 5 and E thru A in descending order).
England, 1960-70s The Charatan’s pipe of a quite rare series: the Perfection grade was introduced during the “second Lane era”, 1965-1976 and followed the highly popular and respected Special grade, though production of Perfection pipes seemed to be rather occasional than regular. Interesting that the pipe doesn’t have a shape number: the most probably because…
England, 1910s This very old English pipe was obtained with a really interesting 1912-13 pipe collection. As you can see pipe makers at these times didn’t pay too much attention to grain and pipes were rather compact – probably because smokers preferred heavy natural tobacco contrary to our modern aromatics. Since there’s no silver collar…