Stanwell Amber Light Smooth 83 Bent Billiard Estate Briar Pipe, Danish Estates

Description

Stanwell is one of Denmark’s most celebrated and enduring pipe companies, having been founded by Poul Nielsen shortly after the second world war. Over the last six decades, Stanwell has established itself as both a leader in innovative Danish design and for producing well-priced pipes with precision construction and engineering. Many of its designs were created for the company by iconic pipe-makers in the Scandinavian scene, such as Sixten Ivarsson, Anne Julie, Jess Chonowitsch, and Tom Eltang.

By far one of my favorite additions to Stanwell’s catalog in the post-2009 period was the Amber line which, unfortunately is either discontinued or in the process of being phased out, as far as I was able to discern. True to its name, the pipes feature[d] a warm, blonde contrast stain, accented by a silver collar. This Amber is rendered in Stanwell’s “83” medium bent billiard which, oddly enough, is one of the company’s oldest shapes, having been in production since at least the early 1950s.

The condition is good. Slight inner rim charring and a few small, superficial scratches on the bowl.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.76 / 19.30mm

Bowl Depth: 1.61″ / 40.89mm

Weight: 1.5oz / 44g