Poul Winslow Crown 200 Smooth Asymmetric Egg Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

As is often the case with the greats of Danish pipe-making, the story of Poul Winsløw begins as one of a master and an apprentice. That master was none other than Preben Holm; the apprentice was a young Winsløw. Holm held Winsløw in especial regard, with the latter ending up as the former’s head assistant in the Preben Holm workshop. After Holm’s untimely passing, Winsløw went solo, and after surviving the slump in the Danish pipes market in the 1980s and early 1990s, he emerged as one of Denmark’s—and the world’s—premier freehand pipe makers.

In his letter-graded (A, B, C, etc.) pipes, Poul Winsløw tends to add more by way of color and decorative elements to his pipes. In the Crown series, however, whose name appears to come from his former mentor, Winsløw’s designs are—quite fittingly—stripped down to the fundamentals of the Danish freehand. In other words, the latter show off Winsløw’s mastery of form and grain purely through the mediums of briar (for the bowl) and acrylic (for the mouthpiece). In the case of this Crown 200, that takes the form of a highly distinctive, scooping, plateaux-topped asymmetric egg—something of a golden mean between the style of Holm’s late mentor, Preben Holm, and the more organic forms of contemporaries like Jess Chonowitsch or Peter Heeschen.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating. Some slight scratches on the bowl, but nothing major.

Details:

Length: 6.1″ / 154.9mm

Bowl Width: 0.90 / 22.86mm

Bowl Depth: 1.50″ / 38.1mm

Weight: 2.5oz / 72g