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Stanwell Vario Sandblast Straight Liverpool Estate Pipe Made in Denmark
$125.00
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StanwellStanwell VarioLiverpool PipeSandblast PipeStraight PipeMade in DenmarkDanish PipeAcrylic StemTapered StemFishtail BitNo FilterPre SmokedEstate Pipe
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About this Piece
STANWELL, MADE IN DENMARK and the word Vario in flowing script: this is a Stanwell Vario Liverpool, a long, slim straight pipe in sandblasted finish with a tapered acrylic stem.
The stem ends in a fishtail mouthpiece, and the pipe takes no filter. It is pre-smoked once. In the close-up of the shank, Vario reads clearly, STANWELL is legible but a little soft, and MADE IN DENMARK is blurred but readable.
Stanwell grew out of wartime Denmark. In 1942 Poul Nielsen started making pipes, first in beech, at a time when six Danish factories made beech pipes; only one of them, by the maker's own account in a catalogue of about 1982, kept going after the war. The Stanwell name was registered as a trademark in 1948, under number 969-48.
From 1952, with new equipment, Stanwell sent its pipes to Europe and the United States. The factory later moved to Borup - in 1965 by the maker's catalogue, in 1969 by other sources - and around 1982 the firm spoke of about 35 percent of Danish pipe exports, sold in some 40 countries. Pipes were made in Denmark until the end of 2009; since 2010 Barontini in Italy has made them, limited editions excepted.
THE MARKS
- STANWELL / MADE IN DENMARK stamped on the shank
- Vario (in script) stamped on the shank
- 174 - not visible in the photographs
A Liverpool is a straight pipe with an upright, cylindrical bowl, a long shank and a short tapered stem. This one is slim: the bowl is 46 mm high and only 29 mm wide, and the whole pipe weighs 32 grams. In the shape-number list compiled by Bas Stevens and McNally, number 174 is a Liverpool.
The finish is a sandblast over most of the bowl and shank, with smooth patches on the lower front of the bowl and a smooth band at the end of the shank where the stem meets it. The rim is smooth.
For dating, MADE IN DENMARK places the pipe in Stanwell's Danish production, which ended in 2009. No year is known for the Vario stamp, so no narrower date is given.
Condition: pre-smoked once.
THE MEASUREMENTS
- Length: 148 mm (5.83 in)
- Bowl height: 46 mm (1.81 in)
- Bowl width: 29 mm (1.14 in)
- Chamber diameter: 20 mm (0.79 in)
- Chamber depth: 40 mm (1.57 in)
- Weight: 32 g (1.13 oz)
Ships from the Faridunhill archive. Worldwide shipping and professional sanitation on every estate pipe. SKU: 502