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11 photographsArchive Record FUH-TWVK-9NUP-Y
Denicotea Curling 1900 Dark Sandblast Long Billiard Pipe, Vulcanite Fishtail
undetermined
Dating: Owner-statedGermany11 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
Smoked
Yes
owner stated
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
DENICOTEA and CURLING are stamped on the shank, with the number 1900. This is an old-school dark sandblast long billiard from Denicotea of Germany, with a tapered vulcanite stem that ends in a fishtail bit, and a bore for a 9mm filter.
It is pre-smoked and in excellent condition.
Denicotea began in Cologne. In 1932 Willy Heineberg founded the company there, making filters, filter inserts, cigarette holders and pipes. After the Second World War the head office moved to Bergisch Gladbach. The name Denicotea belongs first of all to the company's silica-gel filter, and it appears on holders, care products and boxes as well as on pipes. The company has also sold pipes under other names, among them Adsorba, Aldo Morelli and Wessex.