BEN WADE Golden Matt

BEN WADE Golden Matt

Denmark, 1970s

For the readers of our local site we start publishing of our own translation of the article written by Preben Holm (the English text is available at the pipedia.org). For everyone else we are glad to represent one of Preben Holm pipes made in 1970’s in cooperation with Charatan’s.

The pipe markings are “Ben Wade \ GOLDEN MATT \ HAND MADE \ IN \ DENMARK”. The length is 16.3 cm, bowl’s hight is 6.0 cm. External dimensions of the bowl are 5.0 x 6.0 cm, internal diameter of the bowl is 2.3 cm. The depth is 4.4 cm and this pipe weights 68 gr. Briar, acrylic stem, no filter.

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