All Quiet on the Western Front Pipe

[madox07]

I recently stumbled over the 1979 screening of Erick Maria Remarque's novel, all quiet on the western front, and right off the bat I have noticed that the very likable Kat character is smoking a pipe (unlike the 1930 screening, and the book for that matter if my memory serves me right). Nice piece too ... it immediately caught my eye. Any idea what it might be? Paul's father smokes a pipe also, but that's your standard short tyroliche with a wind cap, nothing fancy ...

 

[workman]

To me it looks like a diplomat shape. A quarter bent apple with an oval shank and saddle stem.

 

[madox07]

On a closer look i think it is a 6 panel .. dunhill made those, but I never saw one with such a wide stem ..

 

[Country Bladesmith]

On a closer look i think it is a 6 panel .. dunhill made those, but I never saw one with such a wide stem ..

It does have a hexagonal rim. I can’t tell you anything about it though.

 

[bullet08]

I thought the post was about Soviet Union running out of vodka within 22 hrs of victory against Nazi.

 

[sablebrush52]

I noticed that wide shank as well. Doesn't look period correct, but I suppose someone was making them early in the last century.

 

[BROBS]

I noticed that wide shank as well. Doesn't look period correct

Sure doesn’t ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

The way the stem is thicker than the shank it appears "Frankensteined" or is a prop.

 

[jpberg]

I think it’s a Stanwell 89.

 

[jpberg]

Replicating the distance and focus seems almost impossible with a cell phone, but....

 

[mikethompson]

Doesn't look period correct to me either. I don't think I so I would have spotted that a few years ago.

Is this on Netflix?

 

[jpberg]

Well yah. If it truly is a Stanwell it’s of by 45 or so years.

 

[twangthang]

a bit different angle.

 

[BROBS]

Does look like that Stanwell. I don’t think the bowl is paneled as it somewhat looks in that first pic.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Does look like that Stanwell. I don’t think the bowl is paneled as it somewhat looks in that first pic.

Yeah, it doesn’t look paneled in the second pic.

 

[mso489]

Movie prop people were probably exerting all their energies on getting the uniforms, haircuts, facial hair, and military gear right, so tobacco pipes were perhaps low priority for historical accuracy, even for WWI. Satisfying Civil War/War Between the States buffs is virtually impossible. I had a friend (great great grandfather a CSA cavalry officer) argue that "Southern" accents didn't arise until after the war when the South became isolated, so the exaggerated accents used in movies are inauthentic. I don't know, but he was on fairly firm ground in terms of having done homework, walked battlefields, etc. He even had cuttings of battleground trees on his property; he was married to a Michigan native whose ancestor had fought for the North. Interesting folks, both ardent history buffs.