Denicotea Curling 1900 Dark Sandblast Long Billiard Pipe, Vulcanite Fishtail

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.

THE MARKS
- DENICOTEA stamped on the shank
- CURLING stamped under it
- 1900 stamped on the shank

Curling appears as a Denicotea line in restorers' notes, for example a "De Luxe Curling". Our records do not explain the number 1900, so we do not read a year or a shape name into it. It is not a date.

The billiard is the classic pipe shape: a round bowl with straight sides on a straight shank. This one is a long billiard: 165 mm in all, with a bowl 49 mm high and 37 mm wide. The tapered vulcanite stem narrows from the shank toward a flat fishtail bit, and the pipe takes a 9mm filter.

The bowl and shank carry a dark, deep sandblast. A sandblast is made by blasting the shaped bowl, so the softer wood wears away and the harder growth rings stand up, and no two blasts come out the same.

THE MEASUREMENTS
- Length: 165 mm (6.50 in)
- Bowl height: 49 mm (1.93 in)
- Bowl width: 37 mm (1.46 in)
- Chamber diameter: 20 mm (0.79 in)
- Chamber depth: 41 mm (1.61 in)
- Weight: 43 g (1.52 oz)

Ships from the Faridunhill archive. Worldwide shipping and professional sanitation on every estate pipe. SKU: 605