Danmore Partia 3094 Bent Pear, Danish, era undetermined

This record documents a Danmore bent pear, shape number 3094, from the maker's Partia line, entered into the archive as a reference example of Danish factory pipemaking. The pipe is identified by its owner as a Danish estate piece, and its defining visual feature is a combination finish: the bowl is worked partly in sandblast and partly smooth, a treatment consistent with the line name Partia, in which the two surface textures share a single stummel. Such mixed finishes were a practical and aesthetic device in Danish production work, allowing attractive smooth panels of grain to be retained while blasted areas gave texture and disguised lesser figuring elsewhere on the block. Danmore belongs to the broad field of Danish factory brands that flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, when Denmark's pipe industry — anchored by large workshops and export-oriented factories — supplied shaped, numbered production pipes alongside the country's better-known artisan output. Within that context, a stamped line name and a four-digit shape number such as 3094 mark this as a catalogued production model rather than a freehand or individually graded piece. The bent pear is a classic chart shape: a bowl with softly tapering, pear-like walls that narrow toward the rim, mounted on a curved shank-and-stem line that drops the bowl below the axis of the bit. The form sits comfortably in the hand and hangs well in the jaw, which made it a staple of Danish and continental shape charts. Dating rests entirely on the identification supplied with the pipe. The honest conclusion for this example is therefore an undetermined era within the general span of Danish factory production, recorded here on the owner's identification.