Pipe Dan 1969 Dan Shape Slender Smooth Stack Estate Briar Pipe, Danish Estates

Description

Along with WO Larsen and Suhr’s Pibemageri, Pipe Dan (or Pibe Dan) was one of the foundational workshops in the emergence of post-war Danish pipe-making. Founded in 1943 by H. Dan-Christensen, Pipe Dan not only sold the pipes of pioneering Scandinavian pipe-makers, such as Sixten Ivarsson, Sven Knudsen and Preben Holm, it employed many of these seminal figures to make Pibe Dan brand pipes. These included Gert Holbek, Ib Loran, Ph. Vigen, and a young Tom Eltang. Pipe Dan closed in 1991, but its impact as an institution on the world of handmade pipes is as strongly felt as ever.

The “Dan Shape Reformed” was Pibe Dan’s flagship product, though there are often misconceptions as to what exactly this meant. Rather than being one shape, the DSR was a series of shapes, whose defining traits were bowls that were taller and—in many instances—much narrower than your average Anglo-French staple. The “Slender,” seen here, was an example of a Dan Shape that was, indeed, exceptionally tall, but was also one of the workshop’s broader, more plump designs, allowing for a wider chamber diameter.

The condition is fair. Chamber over-reamed, some finish fading, and stem slightly over-buffed.

Details:

Length: 5.8″ / 147.3mm

Bowl Width: 0.85 / 21.59mm

Bowl Depth: 2.30″ / 58.42mm

Weight: 1.5oz / 44g