Vauen by Barontini Smooth Hawkbill 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.  

Now we’re cooking with gasoline! While many of the Barontini-designed Vauens we’ve had so far were relatively classically-oriented shapes with some extra Italian flair – which is still very nice – this one is far more distinctive. I’d call it a hawkbill, but it’s not like, say, the Castello shape 84 hawkbill, or the Ser Jacopo renditions. Instead, it’s more muscular and the “beak” itself is longer. It still has that particularly avian side profile though. Perhaps it should be called a heronbill instead? 

This Vauen is completely unsmoked, with a factory-original bowl coating to help ease in its first smokes. 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 filters. It should also accommodate some variety of adapter for non-filter use, if the user prefers.

 

Details:

Length: 5.8″ / 147.3mm

Bowl Width: 0.76 / 19.30mm

Bowl Depth: 1.64″ / 41.65mm

Weight: 2.1oz / 62g