Kaywoodie White Briar 45C Smooth 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 “45C” “Large Dublin” shape, based on which it should have been made between the mid-1950s and early 1970s.

This pipe is completely unsmoked.

Details:

Length: 5.9″ / 149.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.82 / 20.82mm

Bowl Depth: 1.49″ / 37.84mm

Weight: 1.0oz / 30g