Sasieni 1935-45 Eight Dot Moorgate Estate Briar Pipe, English Estates

Description

Along with names like Barling, Charatan, and Dunhill Sasieni holds a special place in the history of English smoking pipes – one near to its very beginnings. So the story goes, Sasieni himself worked for Dunhill during its early days. But eventually he left Dunhill, having his own ideas about how pipes should be made, and founded Sasieni. This was 1919, and Sasieni has been the closest thing to a household name in English pipes ever since.

While Sasieni’s Four Dot pipes are synonymous with high-grade, classic English pipes, there are two other kinds of Sasieni pipes that are held in even higher regard: the One Dot, and the Eight Dot. I’ve talked a little about the One Dot in previous listings for Specially Selected Sasieni pipes, so this would be a good opportunity to talk about Eight Dots. As Sasieni historian Stephen Smith documents, the Eight Dot was a short-lived series, conceived by Sasieni solely for US importers, that was manufactured only from the late-1920s to some point during the Second World War. To narrow the time-frame of this Sasieni down further, Smith also documents that the make began to use the names of English locations for its various shapes in the mid-1930s. As this is a “Moorgate,” i.e., one of Sasieni’s early, lightweight English pot shapes, the pipe would have been made between around 1935 and before the end of the Second World War. Add that to the gorgeous bird’s-eye grain this one exhibits, and you’ve got one very special pipe.

The condition is great. Remarkable, in fact. Some inner rim darkening and slightly faded stamping.

 

Details:

Length: 5″ / 127.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.74 / 18.79mm

Bowl Depth: 1.23″ / 31.24mm

Weight: 0.9oz / 28g