Sasieni 1950-79 Four Dot Walnut Regent Smooth Bent Billiard Estate Briar Pipe, English Estates

Description

Along with names like Barling, Charatan, and Dunhill Sasieni holds a special place in the history of English smoking pipes – one near to its very beginnings. So the story goes, Sasieni himself worked for Dunhill during its early days. But eventually he left Dunhill, having his own ideas about how pipes should be made, and founded Sasieni. This was 1919, and Sasieni has been the closest thing to a household name in English pipes ever

After a legal battle with Dunhill prevented Sasieni from using a one dot stem inlay, Joel Sasieni was forced to come up with a new way of marking the company’s most perfect pipes. So, Sasieni started using “Four Dot” inlays instead. Thus was born the Four Dot, which, funnily enough, came to rival even Dunhill’s “White Spot” as a signifier for high-end, English-made pipes. This particular Four Dot is an example of Sasieni’s “Regent” shape (otherwise known as the “16”), a bent billiard rendition that remained in Sasieni’s catalogs from as early as 1923 right through to the James B. Russell years in the late 20th century. This one, however, dressed in Sasieni’s rich, Walnut finish will have been made at some point between the 1950s and 1979, as it features the shape’s name rather than a number—a practice discontinued after the sale of Sasieni at the end of the 1979s. In other words, it comes from the “Alfred Epoch” of the “family era” of Sasieni pipes, back when Alfred Sasieni was at the reins of the company.

The condition is very good. Some slight inner rim darkening and a couple of superficial scratches on the bowl.

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.77 / 19.55mm

Bowl Depth: 1.46″ / 37.08mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g