Orlik Deluxe Smooth Straight Chimney Billiard (T 13), 20th-Century English Production

This reference example documents an English-made billiard from the Orlik marque, catalogued in its Deluxe line and carrying the shape designation T 13. The pipe is worked in a smooth finish over a straight configuration, its bowl rendered in the chimney variation of the classic billiard — a form distinguished by an elongated, tall cylindrical bowl set on the traditional billiard architecture of a round shank and straight stem. The chimney proportion extends the tobacco chamber vertically, a treatment long favoured for the slow, cool progression of a smoke through a deep column of tobacco, while retaining the disciplined geometry that has made the billiard the benchmark shape of English pipe making. Orlik occupies a respected position in the history of the London pipe trade. In later decades the marque was absorbed into the Cadogan group, the consolidation that also gathered such storied London houses as Comoy's and GBD, after which production continued under shared factory arrangements. The Deluxe designation within Orlik's range marked a smooth-finished tier of the catalogue, paired here with the T-prefixed shape numbering recorded for this example. Dating an Orlik pipe is an exercise in reading nomenclature rather than consulting a date code, as the firm did not employ a systematic factory dating scheme. Attribution therefore rests on the style of the stamped nomenclature, the shape-numbering convention, and the pipe's identification as English-market production. Taken together, these place the example within Orlik's twentieth-century English output, with a narrower bracket left undetermined. It is preserved in the archive as a representative document of the Orlik Deluxe line and of the chimney billiard form in the English factory idiom.