Georg Jensen GOODWILL 31 Smooth Straight Billiard, era undetermined

This reference example is a smooth-finished straight billiard bearing the Georg Jensen name on its GOODWILL line, carrying the shape number 31 and recorded within the archive's Danish estate group. The billiard is the foundational shape of the classical pipe repertoire: a cylindrical bowl set at a right angle to a shank of roughly equal length, with the airway running straight from chamber to bit. Its proportions are the benchmark against which nearly every other traditional shape is measured, and a smooth, unadorned rendering such as this one places the emphasis entirely on the grain of the wood and the discipline of the turning. The straight configuration keeps the stem in line with the shank, giving the pipe its characteristically balanced, unbroken profile. The GOODWILL designation identifies a specific line within that branded output, with the numeral 31 functioning as a factory shape code — a common Danish and continental practice by which a house catalogued its standard forms rather than naming them individually. Dating such a pipe rests on its stampings and general character rather than on any explicit date code, since the marks present — the line name and shape number — identify the model but do not encode a year of manufacture. The nomenclature is consistent with branded Danish factory production of the twentieth century, but without a dated hallmark or documented catalogue correspondence the archive records the era honestly as undetermined. The piece stands in the encyclopedia as a representative example of the GOODWILL line and of the smooth straight billiard as executed under a Danish trade name.