Celius Queen Smooth Freehand Stack (Estate)

Celius pipes were hand made in the workshop of Svend Axel Celius, one of the first generation of iconic carvers in the Danish style that emerged in the mid-20th century. Beginning his career under Poul Rasmussen and Sven Knudsen, Celius later started his own brand of pipes using his last name, while also occasionally carving pipes for Denmark’s famous pipe houses Pipe-Dan and W.Ø. Larsen.

While he was a major contributor to the emergence of the “Danish Fancy” style of freehand pipes, Svend Axel Celius’s approach to such pipes is among the most recognizable in the genre. Favoring strong, sharp, yet still decidedly lightweight pickaxes, Dublins, and hybrids of the two, it’s typically quite easy to pick out a Celius among contemporaneous works in a similar vein.

This one is an astoundingly tall, stacked rendition of a typical Celius freehand, for example, complete with a live plateaux edge rim and a faux-military mount vulcanite mouthpiece. Finely grained, with flame patterns lapping up its towering bowl, this one earned a “Queen” grade, the highest awarded to Celius pipes.

The condition is good. Some rim charring, a couple of small scratches on the bowl, and stem slightly over-buffed at its base.

Details:

Length: 5.9″ / 149.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.81 / 20.57mm

Bowl Depth: 2.73″ / 69.34mm

Weight: 2.2oz / 64g