Bari Valhal Smooth Bent Brandy Estate Briar Pipe [SOLD]

Description

Bari was a pipe company founded in Kolding, Denmark, in 1950. Along with Stanwell, Bari was one of the first companies that started the Danish movement in pipe-making, offering innovative designs and propelling its founders and carvers into celebrity status within the pipe world. Bari’s founder was Viggo Nielsen, whose sons Kai Nielsen and Jørgen Nielsen joined him in working at Bari, along with other soon-to-be famous names such as Åge Bogelund. Though the Bari company is long gone, its legacy lives on in the artisan pipe scene as it exists today.

A nicely compact Danish brandy from the Nielsen family’s Bari make. While there are similarities between its design and the traditional English ‘banker’ shape, this one’s hand shaping has allowed it to push the angles of the basic design into interesting directions, giving it a more pronounced ‘jaw’ than is typical, as well as a slightly backwards-leaning side profile.

The condition is very good. There are one or two natural imperfections in the briar, but it is nonetheless a beautiful pipe and will be a solid smoker.

 

Details:

Length: 5.2″ / 132.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.3″ / 33.02mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 46g