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12 photographsArchive Record FUH-5Q95-EP6T-8
Vauen Luxus 037 Smooth Bent Dublin Sitter Estate Pipe with Vulcanite Saddle Stem and 9mm Filter
undetermined
Dating: Owner-statedGermany12 photographs
Reference example
This pipe is documented here as an example for study — it is a record in the archive, not an item offered for sale. Everything below is what the piece itself, and the evidence around it, will honestly support.
Attribute checklist
Rim cleaned (no wood removed)
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Refinished
No
Faridunhill standing declaration
Chamber reamed
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Facts, not a grade. We do not score a pipe out of ten: a number would rank a restored pipe above an honest one, and restoration is exactly what this hobby prices down. Every line above is checkable by anyone holding the pipe. Lines marked Faridunhill standing declaration rest on our published, dated statement of shop practice (v1.0, 2026-07-29) — not on an inspection of this individual pipe. It is one document, in public, that you can hold us to.
The entry
VAUEN, Luxus and 037 are stamped on the shank of this pipe. It is a Vauen Luxus 037, a smooth bent Dublin sitter from the oldest pipe factory in Germany, fitted with a vulcanite saddle stem, a fishtail bit and a 9mm filter.
Vauen's story starts in 1848 in Nuremberg, where Karl Ellenberger and Carl August Ziener opened what is recorded as the first German pipe factory. In 1901 the firm merged with Gebhard Ott, a house founded in 1866, and became the Vereinigte Pfeifenfabriken Nuernberg, managed by Ernst Eckert of the Ott family. In 1909 Adolf Eckert coined the name VAUEN, taken from the V of Vereinigte and the N of Nuernberg. In the 1920s the white dot became the trademark for pipes sold in Germany and Austria; after a court case against Dunhill, light blue and grey dots have marked the export pipes. The family still runs the company: Alexander Eckert, the fifth generation, has led it since 1982.
Vauen is also tied to the filter pipe. A paper filter came in 1921, and in 1934 the company introduced the Dr. Perl 9mm activated-carbon filter, a world first; today more than 90 percent of the pipes made for the German market take the 9mm filter.