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(New page: Peter Brakner (†) started his career at the Teofil Suhr workshop (Suhr’s Pibemageri) in Copenhagen, where Sixten Ivarsson was the foreman. He brought in Poul Rasmussen and taug...) |
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His fame based fairly on developing an unique and very special "micro-rustication" he called Antique. According to [[Kai Nielsen]], Brakner kept this technique as a secret and only once he showed it to one person - Kai's mother. Both have passed away, so this secret technique is lost. [[Kent Rasmussen]] was recently inspired by Brakner's Antique finish when he created his new technique of rustication. | His fame based fairly on developing an unique and very special "micro-rustication" he called Antique. According to [[Kai Nielsen]], Brakner kept this technique as a secret and only once he showed it to one person - Kai's mother. Both have passed away, so this secret technique is lost. [[Kent Rasmussen]] was recently inspired by Brakner's Antique finish when he created his new technique of rustication. | ||
Brakner was a close friend of Ole Larsen, the proprietor of the famous W.Ø. Larsen tobacco shop and sold a lot of his pipes there, before Larsen hired his own indoor carvers. From the Larsen | Brakner was a close friend of Ole Larsen, the proprietor of the famous [[W.Ø. Larsen]] tobacco shop and sold a lot of his pipes there, before Larsen hired his own indoor carvers. From the [http://www.finepipes.com/LarsenExportCatalog.htm Larsen Export Catalog 1960/61] we learn a bit about Brakner pipes: | ||
* '''Antique''' series. Antique finish in tan or black. Smooth pipes also. Each pipe 7.50 $. | * '''Antique''' series. Antique finish in tan or black. Smooth pipes also. Each pipe 7.50 $. | ||
* '''Bella Danica''' series. Antique finish in tan or black. Each pipe 10.00 $. | * '''Bella Danica''' series. Antique finish in tan or black. Each pipe 10.00 $. | ||