Kaywoodie White Briar 13 Smooth Large Dublin 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.

Kaywoodie’s White Briar made its first catalog appearance in the mid-1950s, though it would appear that its grand debut was a couple of years earlier in that same decade. Despite looking like a meerschaum pipe, the bowls were, as the name indicates, turned from briar root, before being dressed in a very unconventional, opaque, glossy white finish. Aside from looking distinctive, this finish was intended to be resistant to wear and fading, so that the pipe would always retain “its lustre and sparkling whiteness.” This one is rendered in Kaywoodie’s quite traditional shape “13,” referred to either as a Large Dublin (from the 1930s onward), or an Extra Large Dublin (from the 1960s until the 1970s). Judging by the nomenclature, this one looks to be from somewhere between the mid-1950s and the early 1970s, and as such includes the make’s famous Drinkless four-hole stinger.

This pipe is completely unsmoked.

Details:

Length: 6.1″ / 154.9mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.71″ / 43.43mm

Weight: 1.2oz / 36g