Sasieni Family Era Four Dot Natural Bristol Lumberman 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 since.

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-grade, English-made pipes. This one is an example not only of a Four Dot grade, but a Four Dot Natural, which Sasieni itself marketed as the “aristocrat of the pipe world.” Rather than being stained, the very few stummels that were deemed flawless enough to become Naturals were finished merely with layered coatings of wax, before finally being buffed to achieve a golden sheen. Based on the nomenclature, including the “Bristol” shape name (a relatively rare lumberman shape also known as the 103), this pipe will have been made between the end of the Second World War and 1979, during what it commonly referred to as the “Family era” of Sasieni pipes.

The condition is very good. Some slight rim darkening and very minor handling marks.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.84 / 21.33mm

Bowl Depth: 1.57″ / 39.87mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g