Vauen 3314 Smooth Pot 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.    

While this Vauen is a pot shape, it is a distinctly German rendition of one, with a little Danish influence sprinkled in for good measure (Stanwell’s shape “11,” designed by Sixten Ivarsson, springs to mind). A decidedly broad and squat design, it has a very satisfying hand-feel, and handles mixture cuts and ribbons so well that it’s a worthy challenger to Savinelli’s 320 KS author. This last point I know from personal experience, as I happen to own a Vauen exactly like this one.

This Vauen is completely unsmoked, with a factory-original bowl coating to help ease in its first smokes. It also comes with its original sleeve. The pipe, like most Vauens, is chambered for 9mm filters, but adapters can be purchased that will allow it to be used without one.

 

Details:

Length: 5.7″ / 144.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.86 / 21.84mm

Bowl Depth: 1.40″ / 35.56mm

Weight: 1.8oz / 52g