Stanwell Reg Era (c. 1970s) Silver S 25 Smooth Apple 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.

The “Silver S” was, for a long time, one of the highest-grade Stanwells money could buy. Distinguished by their excellent grain patterns, pipes of a Silver S grade wore their titular stem logo long before Stanwell’s adoption of brass and other metal variations became the norm in the 1980s and 1990s, back during a time when just about every other Stanwell pipe was stamped with a simple, thin white script. This particular example is a shape 25, the third Stanwell design to be identified as such. Stanwell had a habit of reusing shape codes back in the day and, funnily enough, all three Stanwell shape “25”s across the company’s lifetime have been creations of the legendary Sixten Ivarsson. The very organic, “scooping” apple seen here debuted in the 1970s, and was in production for a few decades before being discontinued. Based on the stamping—the abridged registration number in particular—I’d estimate this as being a 1970s make, or early 1980s at the very latest.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating. A couple of small scratches on the bowl, though nothing major.

Details:

Length: 5″ / 127.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.79 / 20.06mm

Bowl Depth: 1.37″ / 34.79mm

Weight: 1.3oz / 38g