Vauen Dr. Perl 2148 Hexagonal, Horn Stem — era undetermined

This reference example is a Vauen pipe of the Dr. Perl line, shape number 2148, executed in a hexagonal form and fitted with a horn stem — a material with a long pedigree in Continental pipe making, prized for its warmth, organic figuring, and comfortable feel at the bit. The faceted hexagonal bowl belongs to a family of geometric shapes that German factories have long favoured, presenting flat panels in place of the rounded profiles more typical of Anglo-American work. The firm is most closely identified with the filter smoking tradition in Germany, and the Dr. Perl name is central to that identity: it designates Vauen's activated-charcoal filter system, a development that helped establish the 9mm filter as a standard feature of German pipe culture. Pipes carrying the Dr. The shape number 2148 places this piece within Vauen's catalogued production, where numeric stamps identify the model rather than the year of manufacture. Vauen, like most German factories, did not employ a systematic date-coding scheme on its pipes, so individual examples are bracketed by catalogue references, stylistic features, and line history rather than by a readable year mark. On the evidence present — the brand, the Dr. Perl line, the shape number, and the German estate attribution — the pipe can be firmly assigned to Vauen's production but not to a narrower span of years, and the era is therefore recorded as undetermined pending catalogue correlation.