Sasieni Four Dot Ruff Root 71 Dublin 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. The “Ruff Root” was Sasieni’s answer to demand for sandblasted pipes, of which this Natural variant is a suitably craggy English specimen.

The condition is fair. Some wear and minor charring to the inner rim, and slight handling marks.

 

Details:

Length: 6.2″ / 157.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.87“ / 22.09mm

Bowl Depth: 1.57″ / 39.87mm

Weight: 1.1oz / 34g