Stanwell 2023 Pipe of the Year Smooth Cutty w/ Silver Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

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.

The design for the 2023 Pipe of the Year was one of the most traditional since the 1990s, while also being something of a throwback to Stanwell’s earliest years. As a modern re-imagining of the classical cutty, it was not entirely unlike some of the shapes designed for Stanwell by Sixten Ivarsson in the 1940s and ’50s, though unlike those pipes, the 2023 Pipe of the Year also featured a specially engraved silver collar marking the occasion. From the looks of it, this should be a light smooth iteration of the 2023 release, one of the higher-end finishes offered in that series.

The pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating. It comes with its original packaging.

Details:

Length: 6.4″ / 162.5mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.75″ / 44.45mm

Weight: 2.6oz / 58g