Denmark
The pipe markings are “GEORG JENSEN \ made in Denmark PIPES”, “REBILD” and “14” . The lenghts is 13.2 cm, bowl’s hight is 4.9 cm. External and internal diameters of this bowl are 2.6 cm and 2.0 cm. The depth is 4.2 cm and this pipe weights 28 gr. Briar, vulcanite stem, no filter.
Denmark It’s of course a Georg Jensen product: you may find in the Internet a lot of S62 shape pipes with the traditional Jensen nomenclature. It’s difficlult to guess why the product was stamped with another series name except some unclear business reasons: we didn’t spot any difference to other Jensen pipes.
England, 1950-60s Children should have some degree of a freedom. Especially such “children” as the Parker trademark. That’s very well known story: the Parker company was founded by Alfred Dunhill in 1922 for the quite utilitarian purposes: to finish and market pipes which didn’t went into production as the Dunhill ones. However, this split happened…
England, 1950-60s A stylish Parker pipe made in late 1950s or early 1960s, before merge with Hardcastle Pipe Ltd. It was the period, when Parker succesfully combined Dunhill’s resources and production facility and its own, at times very different from Dunhill’s approach to carving, shaping, finishing and marketing. Therefore both experienced pipe collectors and refined…
USA, 1930s A mysterious pipe from William Demuth Company. The bowl has no markings, but the collar is stamped with three faux hallmarks plus the equilateral triangle containing the “WDC” trademark. Therefore we’re unable to date this pipe exactly. But we would be probably correct to claim the pipe as 60-80 years old, taking into…
Denmark, 1970s An impressive Stanwell’s freehand pipe desgined by Tom Eltang and made in 1970s the earliest and definitely still at the Danish factory. The shining brass band creates an amazing contrast with black sandblasted briar surface.
England, 1968 Thanks to Dunhill’s clearness and punctuality – there’s everything crystal clear with this pipe dating and grading. This is the wonderful and lightweight Root briar pipe (the highest mass market grade) made in 1968. The shape number 83 is called a horn or a yacht – what you like more. Nice, amazing and…