Stanwell Reg Era Hand Made 39 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.

Conceived during the 1950s, the Stanwell’s shape 39 was one of several “Peewit” renditions licensed to the company by their creator, Sixten Ivarsson. Ivarsson was a pioneer of “Danish style” pipes (despite being a native Swede) in the post-war period, and his Peewit shapes, so named due to their signature, lapwing egg-like bowls, were especially popular orders in his own workshop. Stanwell was similarly enamored with the Peewit, to the extent that at least four (depending on what counts as a “Peewit”) other variations were commissioned during the 1950s: the “30,” the “30H,” the “30L,” and the “35,” with others following in subsequent decades. This particular 39 will have been made somewhere between the late 1950s and the 1970s, having disappeared from Stanwell’s catalogs by around 1980. As a Hand Made, it will have been part of the make’s higher end lines, in which it featured exclusively—presumably due to the significant labor that went into crafting it.

The condition is good. Some inner rim darkening and stem slightly over-buffed at the base.

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.77 / 19.55mm

Bowl Depth: 1.60″ / 40.64mm

Weight: 1.2oz / 36g