PETER BRAKNER Antique 135

PETER BRAKNER Antique 135

Denmark, 1970s

We have already represented a few very interesting, extremely elegant and a quite mysterious pipes made by Danish carver Peter Brakner. All of them were of the Antique series, well known and easily identified by inimitable skilfull microrustication.The secret of this technique has been lost unfortunatelly, therefore these pipes made long time ago in the 1970s are really highly valuable and collectable. And of course the poker pipe made by Peter Brakner is valuable and collectable especially!

The pipe markings are “BRAKNER ANTIQUE \ DENMARK”, “HAND-CUT. 135(?)”. The length is 13.9 cm (5.47″), bowl’s height is 4.9 cm (1.93″). External diameter of the bowl is 3.7 cm (1.46″), internal diameter is 1.9 cm (0.75″). The depth is 3.2 cm (1.26″) and this pipe weights 40 gr. Briar, vulcanite stem, no filter.

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