Stanwell Reg Era Hand Made 35 Smooth Peewit 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.

How nice it is to see one of the shapes that started it all. Danish design, that is, or, more appropriately, Scandinavian design. After all, this is one of Sixten Ivarsson’s early creations, and which he licensed to Stanwell to mass produce as the shape 35. Along with the shapes 30, 39, and, arguably, a few others, the 35 was one of Ivarsson’s famous “Peewit” renditions. Conceived during at least the late 1950s (I would personally estimate mid-1950s), the Peewit took its name from the eggs laid by the northern lapwing, a bird also referred to as a “peewit.” It is, at this point, one of the most defining designs of post-war pipe making and a staple in the portfolios of countless artisans around the world, and indeed it was immensely popular during Ivarsson’s lifetime, despite his own preference for more classical, functionalist shapes. This particular 35 will have been made somewhere between the late 1950s and early 1970s at the very latest, as the shape 35 in Stanwell’s catalog was replaced in 1975 by another excellent design, this time created by Anne Julie. As a Hand Made, it will have been part of the make’s higher end lines, in part due to the labor that went into crafting it.

The condition is very good. Some inner rim charring, slight handling marks, and slight faded (though legible) nomenclature.

Details:

Length: 6.8″ / 172.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.81 / 20.57mm

Bowl Depth: 1.64″ / 41.65mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 40g