Vauen De Luxe 08 Bent Rhodesian Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked, 9mm [SOLD OUT]

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.

As indicated by the name, along with the white dot, or weißer Punkt, on its stem (not to be confused with Dunhill’s White Spot), the De Luxe is one of Vauen’s higher end lines. It is also one of Vauen’s lines that is offered in both a fishtail or a P-lip style stem. This one has the latter, which, like Peterson’s P-lip, angles smoke from the pipe upwards into the smoker’s mouth, rather than directly onto the tongue. This is good for reducing tongue bite created by hotter blends. The rest of the pipe is a bent Rhodesian shape, one dressed in a dark walnut stain and wearing an ornate silver collar.

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 wood filters. Adapters can be purchased, however, which would allow the pipe to be smoked just as well without one.

Details:

Length: 5.2″ / 132.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.79 / 20.06mm

Bowl Depth: 1.36″ / 34.54mm

Weight: 2.1oz / 62g