Thread: Pipe of the Day

First pipe today...Jirsa from Czech Republic
Have a nice day.

Originally Posted by Sailor

There's also lesser known Stanwell sub-brand: Sailor. I have no any idea of timing but i've seen few of them at Scandinavian forums. I have one. It might be that i'm wrong (as usual) but at least that is what those pipe gurus here keep telling.
Also Nielsen pipes are sort of a pre Stanwell. Nielsen changed the names of his pipes to Stanwell at 1948. Nowadays Stanwell pipes, at least most of them are made in Italy. I have one of the last Danish models: Nanna Ivarson.

Thanks for the input! I've been digging a little further after reading your post. I turned up these others (including the one you mentioned):

Bijou (discontinued)
Reddish (discontinued)
Sailor (discontinued)
Sorn (discontinued)



I also found the following information on Poul Nielsen:

"In 1942, because of the unavailability of English pipes and raw briar, Poul Nielsen began making pipes from beech wood for Danish customers. At the time, Poul was managing a company called Kyringe, which made various wood products. At the end of the war, briar became available again, so Nielsen began importing his own briar and started making briar pipes to compete with the English manufacturers. It must be remembered that in 1948, England was the single great center for pipe making. Therefore, Nielsen changed the name of his pipes to "Stanwell", which sounded much more like a proper English name than "Nielsen". He also created the horse drawn carriage logo for its English connotations. He later changed his own last name from Nielsen to Stanwell, a testament to his devotion to the pipes he made. Stanwell's relationships with Danish pipe makers goes back to Sixten Ivarsson, who is considered the originator of modern Danish pipe making. Ivarsson was commissioned to design Stanwell shapes."

The Stanwell/Ivarsson relationship has continued to this very day, as you stated, with Nanna (Sixten's granddaughter) having recently designed pipes for the company prior to the move to Italy. Other famous pipemakers to contribute to Stanwell include Jess Chonowitsch and Rainer Barbi.

@Eric and Sailor and everyone else who has provided info:

It's not a matter of knowing anything or knowing everything, nor is it a matter of being an expert or a novice in a given field. Instead, it is about sharing your knowledge and seeking to learn more, so that you have more to share. This whole community has been awesome in welcoming a neophyte such as myself and being so forthcoming with information and encouragement when those more knowledgeable members could just have easily told me, or anyone else, to go find the information on our own.

So in (not-so)short - a grand thank you and a doff of the cap to the gentlemen who drift through these forums to impart their knowledge upon the likes of a layman like myself in much the same way that the wisps of smoke lingering up from our chambers wander through our senses to deliver an esoteric pleasure that leads us each to our own sacred place within our minds.

Sorry for the poetic babble, but I was feeling as though a simple "THANKS DUDE!" just wouldn't cut it.

Squadron Leader in a Comoy's Highgate

No problem! If it hadn't been for Sailor I wouldn't have dug any further. Who knows, there could still be more sub brands out there! That's one of the issues with some of these older companies: it's hard to track down all of the changes they went through over the many years they have been in business.

Nice Comoy's there!

Friday evening, standard procedures.
Sailor pipe. Now being quite small pipe this is most suitable for flake or plug tobacco. This evening it will be Balkan Flakes, along with ice cold local lager.
Have a nice evening, gentlemen!

GLPease Chelsea Morning in a Rubens Rhodesian

now that is what i call a nosewarmer pipe. maybe even a nose scorcher.

Hey guys, I have a question about a pipe.

I bought a decent looking estate pipe off of eBay. It's a bulldog, and it says "Knickerbocker" "Imported Briar" on it. I tried googling the name, but all that came up is the site for a tobacco shop. Are the two affiliated? Any info on this pipe would be appreciated

crichton, you have done me a favor and didnt even know it, i have a royal sovereign woodstock, and now i know it was made by stanwell, thanks a bunch.

Originally Posted by wvloony

crichton, you have done me a favor and didnt even know it, i have a royal sovereign woodstock, and now i know it was made by stanwell, thanks a bunch.

Not a problem!