Stanwell Reg Era (c.1960s-70s) 47 Sandblasted Scoop Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

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.

First introduced in the late 1950s, the “47” was designed by Stanwell’s first major collaborator, Sixten Ivarsson, and incorporated a number of distinctive features common the kinds of shapes he was making during that time. Those who are familiar with Ivarsson’s Stanwell shapes will know that he was very fond of oval shanks, for instance, both in the context of fairly classical renditions of Anglo-French shapes, and in his more subversive takes on that tradition. Ivarsson’s designs during the early post-war period also tended towards more organic, flowing forms, and prioritized lightness, with the results often being uncommonly slight and slender. Today, we would likely call the “47” a “scoop” shape, though even now it strikes as somewhat strange and resistant to easy classification. This is certainly not helped by Stanwell having discontinued the shape around the 1970s, leaving us with far less exposure to it than we might like.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating.

Details:

Length: 5.9″ / 149.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.83 / 21.08mm

Bowl Depth: 1.24″ / 31.49mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 40g