Charatan’s Make Selected Sandblasted Dublin 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 might just be the deepest sandblast I’ve ever seen on a Charatan, to the point where I might even mistake it for rustication if I didn’t know better. The stamping is quite faint, but I don’t make out a Lane Ltd “£” stamp, nor the stamping used post-Lane. I do wonder whether this might be a Reuben era pipe. The blast would certainly fit.

The condition is fair. There’s certainly some rim darkening, and the nomenclature is faint, as mentioned. The stem is also little overbuffed at the base.

 

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.90 / 22.86mm

Bowl Depth: 1.71″ / 43.43mm

Weight: 1.9oz / 54g