Vauen 6861 Smooth Bent Brandy 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.  

There is something a little bit Danish about this bent brandy from Vauen. Aside from the general plumpness, it has that kind of “scooping” composition that you’d find in the brandy shapes of, for example, Erik Nording or Anne Julie. Though, as I’ve noted for other Vauens from the NOS (new old stock) lot this one came from, there’s been a clear Danish influence on the German make over the years. This one also has an original P-lip style stem (rather than a standard fishtail), which Vauen also explored over the years, much like Savinelli or Hilson. I suppose that makes this pipe a kind of German-Danish-Irish hybrid. All the better for it, I’d say.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating. It comes with its original sleeve. There are one or two worn out fills, but nothing major at all. The pipe is chambered for 9mm filters, such as Vauen’s own, as standard, but can be smoked without, and may accommodate an adapter of some variety for non-filtered use.

 

Details:

Length: 5.2″ / 132.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.76 / 19.30mm

Bowl Depth: 1.48″ / 37.59mm

Weight: 1.8oz / 52g