Charatan’s Make Special 260x Straight Dublin Estate Briar Pipe, Lane Era

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.

As Charatan has been making pipes near-continuously for over a century, it is to be expected that the company’s ownership changed hands several times, as has been the case with many British pipe brands. This particular Charatan is from a period that many pipe smokers consider to have been its best, that being between the mid-1950s and early 1980s. This ‘Special’ grade Dublin is an unusually lightweight specimen from that era, and has some lovely grain, deliberately emphasized by its light brown stain.

Details:

Length: 5.2″

Bowl Width: 21.8mm

Bowl Depth: 1.6″

Weight: 1.1oz / 32g