Brakner Tanshell "Royal Danois" Bent Dublin

Brakner Tanshell "Royal Danois" Bent Dublin
Peter Brakner was another graduate of Poul Rasmussen's "Suhr Pibemageri" (pipe workshop), whose foreman was the great Sven Knudsen. His work was featured in the early Sixties in the Larsen catalog, before they began carving their own pipes, alongside Gert Holbek, Sixten Ivarsson, Sven, and others. He is best known for what I call his "microrustication" technique, which imparts a very interesting texture to the briar as shown on this example. Some years later, at my urging, Kent Rasmussen developed his own variation of this technique, which he has used to very good effect.

Brakner had a style of design not unlike Celius, and favored bent Dublin shapes and bits with turned ferrules, cut by hand from the best quality of vulcanite. This is far and away the finest Brakner I have seen. Most Brakners were black, but this one has a rich tanshell finish. The rustication is very intricate, and closely resembles sandblasting.

The execution is first rate, and so too is the condition. A very good pipe indeed.