WO Larsen Super 77 Smooth Bent Dublin Estate Briar Pipe, Danish Estates

Description

WO Larsen was a tobacconist in Copenhagen Denmark. In the 1960s, when Danish-style pipes were becoming highly sought after, thanks to revolutionary pipe-makers such as Sixten Ivarsson, a workshop was set up on the Larsen premises to produce enough high-grade Danish pipes to meet demand. This workshop was staffed by the emerging masters of Danish pipe-making, such as Sven and Teddy Knudsen, Hans “Former” Nielsen, Jess Chonowitsch, Poul Ilsted, and Benni Jorgensen.

I can’t say which of WO Larsen’s master carvers had a hand in making this Super series Dublin, but I’d be surprised if Sven Knudsen wasn’t involved in the design. Like the elder Knudsen’s own-make pipes, this one embodies a distinctly tall, slender, almost saxophone-like Dublin design, with a horn ferrule and a long, flared ebonite stem.

The condition is great. Some inner rim darkening and a little wear to the horn ferrule.

 

Details:

Length: 6.2″ / 157.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.83 / 21.08mm

Bowl Depth: 1.56″ / 39.62mm

Weight: 1.2oz / 36g