Stanwell Walnut 124 Ivarsson Design Egg Apple Saddle Stem Danish Estate Pipe

Walnut in script under the Stanwell name, and the number 124 on the shank: this is a Stanwell shape 124, the egg-shaped bowl on a long, pointed shank that Sixten Ivarsson and his son Lars Ivarsson designed together, finished with a saddle stem that carries the crowned S.

It has been previously smoked and is in good condition. STANWELL, Walnut and 124 read clearly in the close-ups; a second line under STANWELL is too faint to read in the photographs, so MADE IN DENMARK cannot be confirmed from them.

Stanwell started in Denmark in 1942, when Poul Nielsen began making pipes, first in beech. The maker's own catalogue of about 1982 recalls that six Danish factories were making beech pipes in those years and that five of them closed after the war. In 1948 the name Stanwell was registered as a trademark, under number 969-48.

New equipment came in 1952, together with exports to Europe and the USA. The catalogue dates the move to a modern factory in Borup to 1965 (other sources say 1969), and about 1982 the company counted some 35 percent of Danish pipe exports, sold in about 40 countries. Danish production ended at the end of 2009; since 2010 the pipes have been made by Barontini in Italy, limited editions excepted.

THE MARKS

- STANWELL stamped on the shank, with a second line too faint to read in the photographs
- STANWELL / Walnut (script) stamped on the shank
- 124 stamped on the shank
- Crowned S on the stem

Shape 124 appeared in the Stanwell catalogue in 1983. It joins an egg-apple bowl to a long, pointed shank that narrows in the middle and widens at the ends, and it closes with a saddle stem. The design was a collaboration between Sixten Ivarsson and his son Lars, and it is the last major model Sixten delivered to the factory. Copies of the Stanwell shape-number list differ: one describes 124 as a freehand with a long conical stem and a short saddle mouthpiece by Sixten and Lars Ivarsson in collaboration, while the copy compiled by Bas Stevens and McNally names Sixten Ivarsson alone. On this pipe the mouthpiece turns gently upward at its end.

The finish is smooth, and long straight lines of grain run along the shank and around the bowl.

No date mark can be read on this pipe, so no year is given.

Condition: previously smoked, in good condition.

THE MEASUREMENTS

- Length: 140 mm (5.51 in)
- Bowl height: 48 mm (1.89 in)
- Bowl width: 40 mm (1.57 in)
- Chamber diameter: 20 mm (0.79 in)
- Chamber depth: 41 mm (1.61 in)
- Weight: 51 g (1.80 oz)

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