Stanwell 2001 Pipe of the Year Sandblasted Dublin Estate Briar Pipe, Danish Estates

Description

Stanwell is one of Denmark’s most celebrated and enduring pipe companies, having been founded by Poul Nielsen shortly after the second world war. Over the last six decades, Stanwell has established itself as both a leader in innovative Danish design and for producing well-priced pipes with precision construction and engineering. Many of its designs were created for the company by iconic pipe-makers in the Scandinavian scene, such as Sixten Ivarsson, Anne Julie, Jess Chonowitsch, and Tom Eltang.

Since 1979, Stanwell has, without fail, released an annual, limited edition Pipe of the Year (as well as a German market Jahrespfeife between the 1990s and 2000s). As with many Stanwell models, these pipes have, for the most part, been designed by Scandinavia’s most acclaimed pipe makers, including Sixten Ivarsson, the late Jess Chonowitsch, Lasse Skovgaard, Manduela Riger-Kusk, and Poul Winslow.

2001’s release was designed by Stanwell’s most prolific collaborator, the Danish master Tom Eltang. True to his style, it was a lightweight, oval shank Dublin rendition—in other words, distinctive, functionalist, and with one foot firmly in the Anglo-French tradition. As was typical of Stanwell’s Pipe of the Year releases in the 1990s and 2000s, this one wears a superb, ring grain sandblast finish, and sports an engraved silver plaque.

The condition is good. Some charring on the inner rim and minor finish fading.

Details:

Length: 5.6″ / 142.2mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.60″ / 40.64mm

Weight: 1.1oz / 32g