Cellini Original Extra Large Smooth Pencil Shank Stack (Estate)

About this pipe:

The Cellini Pipe Shop was, as the name suggests, a pipe shop, and a rather significant one in the context of American pipe culture. Founded in the 1920s by Art Silber, the shop sold a variety of pipe products from its downtown Chicago premises, most of which were house-brand pipes. Rather than simply import pipes from other manufacturers from other makes to serve as these house-brand briars, Cellini had its own factory, employing such notable figures as the American craftsman Pimo Polidori.

As the years went by and ever more modern designs took hold of the international pipe making scene, Cellini’s own output shifted toward Danish-style creations, many of them strongly mirroring the pipes of Pibe-Dan and W.Ø. Larsen. In the case of this one, it’s certainly not a dead ringer, but its slender, stacked frame and slight “checkmark”-style figure does give it something of a “Dan Shape”—though with a stature far larger even than Pibe-Dan’s most sizeable renditions.

The condition is very good. Some darkening and general wear to the rim, and a couple of small scratches on the bowl.

Details:

Length: 7.12″ / 180.8mm

Chamber Width: 0.76″ / 19.30mm

Chamber Depth: 2.68″ / 68.07mm

Bowl Height: 2.91″ / 73.91mm

Weight: 1.3oz / 38g