Pipe Dan Dan Shape Reformed Smooth Acorn Estate Briar Pipe, Danish Estates

Description

Along with WO Larsen and Suhr’s Pibemageri, Pipe Dan (or Pibe Dan) was one of the foundational workshops in the emergence of post-war Danish pipe-making. Founded in 1943 by H. Dan-Christensen, Pipe Dan not only sold the pipes of pioneering Scandinavian pipe-makers, such as Sixten Ivarsson, Sven Knudsen and Preben Holm, it employed many of these seminal figures to make Pibe Dan brand pipes. These included Gert Holbek, Ib Loran, Ph. Vigen, and a young Tom Eltang. Pipe Dan closed in 1991, but its impact as an institution on the world of handmade pipes is as strongly felt as ever.

The “Dan Shape Reformed” was Pibe Dan’s flagship product, though there are often misconceptions as to what exactly this meant. Rather than being one shape, the DSR was a series of shapes, whose defining traits were bowls that were taller and narrower than your average Anglo-French staple. Exactly how tall and how narrow the shapes were depended on the shape, with some having proportions bordering on absurd, and others, like this one, being a little more down to earth.

The condition is very good. Some minor inner rim darkening and a little bit of finish fading, but nothing major.

 

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.62″ / 41.14mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 40g