Bari De Luxe Mahagoni Smooth Freehand Estate Briar Pipe, Danish Estates

Description

Bari was a pipe company founded in Kolding, Denmark, in 1950. Along with Stanwell, Bari was one of the first companies that started the Danish movement in pipe making, offering innovative designs and propelling its founders and carvers into celebrity status within the pipe world. Bari’s founder was Viggo Nielsen, whose sons Kai Nielsen and Jørgen Nielsen joined him in working at Bari, along with other soon-to-be famous names such as Åge Bogelund. Though the Bari company is long gone, its legacy lives on in the artisan pipe scene as it exists today.

In the case of this Bari, it’s a classic Danish “Fancy” freehand from what is a very classic Danish make. Though I’m not sure precisely when this one was made, it is an example of one of the staple pipes crafted at the Kolding workshop. After all, Viggo Nielsen, like Erik Nording and Preben Holm, was one of the pioneers of the freehand as we know it today, carving plenty of them under his own name as well as via Bari. Rugged yet finely grained, with a dash of live plateaux edge at its shank end and a slightly ornate stem, it’s a quintessential freehand, from one of the makes that created the freehand as we know it.

The condition is very good. Minor inner rim darkening.

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.87 / 22.09mm

Bowl Depth: 1.52″ / 38.60mm

Weight: 2.1oz / 62g