Celius Root Bishop Smooth Freehand Dublin (Estate)

About this pipe:

Svend Axel Celius got his start in one of Denmark’s founding post-war pipe workshops: Suhr’s Pibemageri. It’s hard to overstate how important Suhr’s was for Scandinavian pipe making, with many of its original greats, such as Poul Rasmussen, Sixten Ivarsson, Emil Chonowitsch, Sven Knudsen, Peter “Brakner” Micklson, and Hans “Former” Nielsen being among its resident artisans. Celius too was one of those artisans, learning the craft under Rasmussen and Knudsen before moving on to Pibe-Dan and to his own workshop, through which he made Celius-brand pipes. Though he was very versatile as a pipe maker, Celius was well known for his “freehand” style pipes, and was one of the pioneers of the “Danish fancy,” along with Preben Holm, Erik Nording, and Viggo Nielsen.

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 remarkably 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 is one of his rugged Dublin renditions, with a live plateau rim, a warm, smooth finish, and an ornate, Danish-style ebonite mouthpiece.

The condition is fair. Some rim charring, chamber slightly over-reamed, and some handling marks.

Details: 

Length: 6.4″ / 162.5mm

Bowl Width: 0.92 / 23.36mm

Bowl Depth: 1.48″ / 37.59mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g