Charatans Make 4499DC Sandblasted Straight Billiard Estate Briar Pipe, English Estates

Description

While Dunhill may be Britain’s most famous pipe brand, Charatan is not only older, but has the honor of being the first to have made its pipes entirely in-house. ‘Charatan’s Make’ referred to the fact that, at a time when other pipe companies were sourcing stummels and stems carved from other companies before assembling them in their factories and workshops, Charatan made every part of their pipes on the Charatan premises. So began a legacy of high-quality pipe-making under the Charatan name, one whose employees, at one time or another, included Joel Sasieni, and Ken Barnes and Barry Jones of James Upshall fame.

This particular Charatan is a highly traditional – though larger than average – rendition of the English saddle billiard, wearing a light brown sandblast comparable to Dunhill’s contemporaneous Tanshell series.

The condition is fair. The stem is a professional replacement and the rim may have been – again, professionally – topped, as I don’t recall ever seeing a Charatan sandblast with a smooth rim. I could be wrong, however, so it may well have originally been that way. I’ve adjusted the price accordingly regardless.

 

Details:

Length: 6.6″ / 167.6mm

Bowl Width: 0.89 / 22.60mm

Bowl Depth: 1.71″ / 43.43mm

Weight: 2.4oz / 70g