Bari Select Nature Old Briar 967 Smooth Stack Billiard 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 its infancy, the so-called “Danish style” of pipe making owed its greatest debt to England. Everyone wanted “English” pipes, so much so that Poul Nielsen took on the name Stanwell because it sounded more English than his own, very Danish, surname. Times change, of course, and soon a genuinely “Danish” style emerged that would rival even the most celebrated Anglo-French makes in sheer demand. In more recent decades, Danish pipe making, along with the vast number of artisans influenced by it, has changed again, this time returning to a more reserved, classical design philosophy, albeit with a few tweaks here and there. This Bari, therefore, would have been both behind and ahead of the curve, taking the form of a quite traditional, long, slender, and lightweight stacked billiard. It’s a reserved design, though no less nice looking for it, with a good amount of bird’s-eye under its simple light brown stain.

The condition is fair. Some wear and minor scratches on the rim, and slight handling marks.

 

Details:

Length: 6.2″ / 157.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.74 / 18.79mm

Bowl Depth: 1.76″ / 44.70mm

Weight: 1.1oz / 34g