Stamped SUPRA, and built to match: a large bowl, slightly bent, meant for a long steady smoke rather than a quick bowl between errands.

This is an Oldenkott Supra, a smooth briar with a gentle bend, fitted with a tapered vulcanite stem cut to a fishtail slot and bored for a 9mm filter. The shank carries the OLDENKOTT SUPRA stamp. No shape number or grade dot accompanies it.

Oldenkott's roots run through a tobacco dynasty tracing to the 1740s and 1760s, split between the Henricus Oldenkott line at Rees and the Hermannus Oldenkott line at Ahaus, with a house in Amsterdam recorded in an 1918 print advertising Herms, Oldenkott und Zonen in Ahaus mit einem Zweiggeschaft in Amsterdam. In 1838 August Kersten of Rees bought the Heinric Oldenkott factories at Elten and Weesp, building one of Germany's largest tobacco firms; a portrait of Kruger, who reportedly smoked Oldenkott's Knaster tobacco in exile, appeared on the firm's packets by 1901. Pipes under the Oldenkott name were advertised nationally in Berlin from 1926, and in 1929 the company bought the Ahaus and Neuss factories that had belonged to Hermann-Oldenkott. Oldenkott's own pipe production began in 1932, and after the war the firm stood as Germany's second largest pipe maker, behind only Vauen. Niemeijer of the Netherlands bought the company in 1972; tobacco production ended in 1974 and the firm continued as a pipe maker alone. The Kersten family bought the pipe operation back in 1987, and it closed in 1992. The Oldenkott marks were acquired in 2012 by Alexander Strahnz of Cologne, and pipes carrying the name today are made in Italy.

THE MARKS
- OLDENKOTT SUPRA, stamped on the shank

The stamp is the only marking reported on this pipe; no shape number, grade dot, or country stamp accompanies it.

No shape number or catalog name is stamped alongside SUPRA, so this pipe is best described by what is actually there: a large-bowled, slightly bent shape running to a tapered vulcanite stem. A tapered stem narrows steadily from the shank to the button, in contrast to a saddle stem's stepped profile, and it is the traditional cut for a briar meant to sit comfortably at a downward angle in the hand or the rack. The fishtail slot, a broad opening that splits toward the button, spreads the draw across a wider surface than a pinched slot and is generally the gentler bit style against the teeth. Fitted with a 9mm filter chamber, the smoker has the option of a paper or charcoal filter narrowing the draw, or an adapter running the pipe unfiltered. The bend here is slight, not the deep curve of a full bent bulldog or a churchwarden's long stem; it sits closer to a gentle, easy-grip rise.

The bowl is smooth and stained. On the exact tone and grain pattern, see the photographs.

Condition: this pipe is pre-smoked and graded very good. Faint scratches are visible in the stain around the bowl. The stem carries a bite mark.

THE MEASUREMENTS
- Length: 155mm / 6.2"
- Bowl height: 50mm / 2.0"
- Bowl width: 42mm / 1.7"
- Bowl depth: 42mm / 1.7"
- Chamber diameter: 20mm / 0.8"
- Weight: 1.8 oz

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SKU: 347