My new Stanwell Featherweight 244 (Denmark)
Dec 1, 2017 20:41:19 GMT -5
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Post by johnlawitzke on Dec 1, 2017 20:41:19 GMT -5
As mentioned in the post that I just made about my visit to the Amsterdam Pipe Museum, I spent some time browsing in the attached pipe shop.
The shop has a very large selection of pipes. In a picture below, you'll see an example of how many pipes they have in their pull out drawers. They have three of these banks of drawers. One side of the shop is the display from the pic below which has all the modern pipes. The other side of the shop has a huge amount of antique pipes and tobbaciana. There are also a lot of pipe-related books, old and new, in various languages, for sale. Definitely worth the visit.
As I was talking pipes with the owner and browsing, he would pull out various drawers and point which maker was in that drawer. They had 2 drawers of Dutch porcelain pipes, drawers of this and that (there were so many, I forget what all I looked at). What finally caught my attention was when I realized that the one and a half drawers of Stanwell pipes were ALL Danish made Stanwells. It's been almost 10 years since Stanwell's production was moved to Italy. Look at the picture of the pipe drawer below. I was looking at about 200 NOS Danish made Stanwells that were 10 to 20 years old.
After apologizing to the shop owner for leaving drool all over the drawers, I finally narrowed my selection to a Stanwell Featherweight 244. The 244 shape is an elegant, petite Horn shape designed by Tom Eltang for Stanwell.
Then we went to the register to pay. As I pulled out my Visa card, the shop owner explained to that they don't accept plastic (credit or debit) and were cash only. Having been to Europe many times, I know that this is more common than you would expect based on living in the US. However, I was very shocked to encounter it here since someone could easily spend 100s of euros here. Luckily, I had just enough cash on me to buy the pipe that I had selected. I would have been crushed if after picking out the pipe, I didn't have enough cash because I had no other time available during my business trip to The Hague to return to Amsterdam.
BTW- The shop does not sell pipes online. The shop's owner believes that one needs to see and feel a pipe in order to properly buy one.
Pics of the shop and the pipe:
The shop has a very large selection of pipes. In a picture below, you'll see an example of how many pipes they have in their pull out drawers. They have three of these banks of drawers. One side of the shop is the display from the pic below which has all the modern pipes. The other side of the shop has a huge amount of antique pipes and tobbaciana. There are also a lot of pipe-related books, old and new, in various languages, for sale. Definitely worth the visit.
As I was talking pipes with the owner and browsing, he would pull out various drawers and point which maker was in that drawer. They had 2 drawers of Dutch porcelain pipes, drawers of this and that (there were so many, I forget what all I looked at). What finally caught my attention was when I realized that the one and a half drawers of Stanwell pipes were ALL Danish made Stanwells. It's been almost 10 years since Stanwell's production was moved to Italy. Look at the picture of the pipe drawer below. I was looking at about 200 NOS Danish made Stanwells that were 10 to 20 years old.
After apologizing to the shop owner for leaving drool all over the drawers, I finally narrowed my selection to a Stanwell Featherweight 244. The 244 shape is an elegant, petite Horn shape designed by Tom Eltang for Stanwell.
Then we went to the register to pay. As I pulled out my Visa card, the shop owner explained to that they don't accept plastic (credit or debit) and were cash only. Having been to Europe many times, I know that this is more common than you would expect based on living in the US. However, I was very shocked to encounter it here since someone could easily spend 100s of euros here. Luckily, I had just enough cash on me to buy the pipe that I had selected. I would have been crushed if after picking out the pipe, I didn't have enough cash because I had no other time available during my business trip to The Hague to return to Amsterdam.
BTW- The shop does not sell pipes online. The shop's owner believes that one needs to see and feel a pipe in order to properly buy one.
Pics of the shop and the pipe:
