Dating Sasieni pipes is one of those "close is the best you can hope for" things, so I've never messed with it. Other than this pipe has a /20 patent number, meaning it can't be newer than the 1950's, I have no idea when it was made.
The nomenclature is weak, and the plumbing-fitment-widget-thingie is long gone, but otherwise the pipe is sound. And boy does it smoke! One of my top five lifetime pieces. It would be welcome on my deserted island any time. :
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The size is difficult to judge from the pics because it's cut so well proportion-wise, but if a Dunnie it would be an ODA: 59.1 grams, 6.4" long, and the bowl is 2.125" tall.
Supposedly true Sasieni factoid: Not one to use subtlety when brute force would work just as well, Joel Sasieni baked his shipments of ebauchons in an oven for several days upon delivery, then let them cool and sorted out the cracked ones. Those became fuel, and the sound ones went on to become pipes. Simple practicality or "curing?" Both, I suppose. Whatever you want to call it, every Sasieni I've owned smoked like a champ.
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The nomenclature is weak, and the plumbing-fitment-widget-thingie is long gone, but otherwise the pipe is sound. And boy does it smoke! One of my top five lifetime pieces. It would be welcome on my deserted island any time. :
:The size is difficult to judge from the pics because it's cut so well proportion-wise, but if a Dunnie it would be an ODA: 59.1 grams, 6.4" long, and the bowl is 2.125" tall.
Supposedly true Sasieni factoid: Not one to use subtlety when brute force would work just as well, Joel Sasieni baked his shipments of ebauchons in an oven for several days upon delivery, then let them cool and sorted out the cracked ones. Those became fuel, and the sound ones went on to become pipes. Simple practicality or "curing?" Both, I suppose. Whatever you want to call it, every Sasieni I've owned smoked like a champ.
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