Kaywoodie 1930s Super Grain 5173S Smooth Canadian Estate Briar Pipe Unsmoked

Description

Kaywoodie pipes are as American as apple pie. Starting in 1919 as a pipe brand for KB&B, a pipe shop dating all the way back to 1851, Kaywoodie has since then been a staple of American-made pipes. In the present, many Kaywoodies are collectors’ items, in addition to being fantastic smokers.

The Super Grain was one of Kaywoodie’s early higher-grade lines, one that, in its infancy, was distinguished by KB&B’s signature cloverleaf inlay on its shank, rather than its stem. Turned from what KB&B claimed to be especially excellent briar, which the company had located in Greece, Super Grains wore very natural, smooth finishes, with the intention of giving center stage to said briar. Based on the four-digit (numerically speaking) shape code, this one will have been made around the mid-1930s and looks to be wearing the Super Grain’s “Miami” finish from around that period. It’s an exceptionally long take on the Canadian, especially for the time, with grain that is—just as promised—quite super, and very much elevated by the deep, slight contrast tones of its finish.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating. Some very slight scratches on the bowl and shank.

 

Details:

Length: 7.1″ / 180.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.80 / 20.32mm

Bowl Depth: 1.57″ / 39.87mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 46g