STANWELL Jubilee 63
Denmark
Dating of pipes (except Dunhill) is both entertaining, puzzling and inexact process. Therefore we may thank to gentlemen from Stanwell who simplified the dating problem having made a range of collectable pipes on its 40-year anniversary in 1982 and invited the best masters for their design such as Tom Eltang, Jess Chonowitsch, Anne Julie, Sixten Ivarsson and Paul Stanwell.
Our pipe of the 63rd shape is an embodiment of the master’s imagination of Sixten Ivarsson. The pipe markings are “STANWELL \ Jubilee”, “MADE IN DENMARK” and “63”. The lenghts is 13.5 cm, bowl’s hight is 5.2 cm. External and internal diameters of this bowl are 4.2 cm and 2.0 cm. The depth is 4.5 cm and this pipe weights 31 gr. Briar, vulcanite stem, no filter. The chamber is protected with the break in paste.
I have two Stanwell Jubilee pipes. Stamped 181 on the shank. What is the significance of this stamping?
Thank you
181 is the shape number. According to the shape chart, your pipe should be a freehand: conical bowl with plateau top, oval stem, short saddle mouthpiece, a shape designed by Tom Eltang. https://pipedia.org/wiki/Stanwell_Shape_Numbers_and_Designers#Numbered_shape_codes