Charatan’s Make Executive Dublin Sitter 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.

The Executive belonged to Charatan’s series of high-grade freehand pipes, made by hand in the London factory’s freehand workshop. As Charatan put it, the Executive was  “A flawless hand cut straight grained pipe, distinguished by its honey color which accentuates the tight, unique graining.” As regards this Executive-grade bell Dublin-poker hybrid, I’m inclined to agree. The grain is uniform, tight, and so fine as to almost look like draped hair, and the light brown stain does wonders to add an extra sheen to the briar without smothering it.

The condition is very good. Some rim darkening.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 127.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.98″ / 24.89mm

Bowl Depth: 1.73″ / 43.94mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g