Vauen 3215 Smooth Bent Apple Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked, 9mm

Description

Vauen stems from Germany’s oldest tobacco pipe manufacturing company, tracing its roots back to the founding partnership of Karl Ellenberger and Carl August Ziener in Nuremberg, 1848. Out of the Ellenberger-Ziener partnership soon came the Vauen make itself, which grew to become Germany’s largest and most enduring pipe brand – a title that it continues to hold to this day.

Though it has a Germanic chubbiness, it would be difficult not to look at this shape 3215 and think it was somewhat “Danish.” In fact, I would say it was very Danish. I’m not sure when the shape was designed, but I see many similarities between this pipe and Tao’s work, or Stanwell’s “Island” series pipes – both being instances of very round, organic little pipes. Anyway, it’s a gorgeous pipe on its own merits, being a plump, Danish apple shape with plenty of pleasant flame grain and a silver mount. This pipe also has an original P-lip style stem that Vauen – like Savinelli – uses for some of their pipes.

This Vauen is completely unsmoked, with a factory-original bowl coating to help ease in its first smokes. I note one worn out fill, but nothing major.

It also comes with its original box and sleeve. As with most Vauen pipes, it is chambered for 9mm filters, such as Vauen’s own, or Savinelli’s balsa wood filters. Adapters can be purchased, however, which would allow the pipe to be smoked just as well without one.

 

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.75 / 19.05mm

Bowl Depth: 1.42″ / 36.06mm

Weight: 2.2oz / 64g