Nording 1998 Hunting Pipe “Beaver” Smooth Apple with Bamboo (Estate)

Nørding was founded by Erik Nørding in the 1960s, and is one of the oldest remaining companies to come out of the Scandinavian pipe-making renaissance that began in the mid-20th century. Now in his 80s, Erik Nørding is one of the most experienced and skilled pipe-makers in the world, and over the decades he has also been a teacher of other Danish masters, such as Poul Ilsted, Svend Axel Celius, Jens Tao Nielsen, Peder Jeppesen, and Søren Erik Andersen. Erik Nørding retired in 2026.

For thirty years between 1995 and 2025, Erik Nørding created a special, limited edition “Hunting Pipe,” paying tribute to the pastime and to the great outdoors more generally. The series was conceived in collaboration with Danish wildlife illustrator Mogens Andersen, with each drawing inspiration for its design for a particular animal. For the 1998 release, seen here, Andersen chose the beaver, an animal which had been all but extinct in Denmark until their reintroduction by conservationists at the end of the 1990s. Andersen chose to emulate the beaver’s chubby physique through the 1998 Hunting Pipe’s similarly plump bowl, while its bamboo shank extension represented the gnawed tree branches left in the animal’s wake.

The condition is great. Some inner rim darkening.

Details:

Length: 5.9″ / 149.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.75 / 19.05mm

Bowl Depth: 1.39″ / 35.30mm

Weight: 1.1oz / 34g