Knudsen, Holmer

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Holmer Knudsen @ DAN PIPE

Holmer Knudsen was born in Husum and educated as an engineer specialising in process engineering. As a hobbyistic pipemaker he came to DAN PIPE in Lauenburg, where he decided to make pipes full-time after a while. During the first years his pipes were avaiöable via the DAN PIPE cataloge exclusively. After successful demonstrations at many pipe shops his pipes are also stored by selected traders.

Knudsen's makes primarily machine-made pipes in series according to pre-defined shapes. These pipes are very favorable for their very good price-performance ratio. His freehands, few indeed, haven't found their own and unmistakeable style yet, but deserve attention all the same.

Stamping: "Holmer Knudsen" in an oval on the shank.

DAN PIPE secured the rights of the famed but discontinued Danish brand Kriswill in the 1980's and used the name for a series of pipe tobaccos. The cataloge of 2006 displayed some models as "Kriswill" again. These pipes were made by Knudsen and show his characteristic "handwriting".

Since "Former" Nielsen signed out in 2005/2006, Knudsen also makes the Bentley - Former's design pipes. Already earlier DAN PIPE had released a Knudsen made series of seven shapes very similar to the original Bentleys as "Bentley Pipemaster".

Holmer Knudsen
c/o DAN PIPE - Frickert & Behrens KG
Hafenstr. 30
21481 Lauenburg (Elbe)
Germany
Phone: +49 (04153 59890
E-mail: pipe@danpipe.de
Website: DAN PIPE or Old website