Typically when we see the Pitcher shape, it's on some extra-large Italian number - a L'Anatra or a Castello, say. Here, however, we find a relatively modestly-sized (yet quite large-chambered) Danish freehand version, perched at the end of a short, stout, square-sectioned shank.
The Signature line began with Erik Nording shaping pipes at shows, then signing the unfinished briar simply as a souvenir, but these proved so popular that he decided to make them a series in their own right, each hand-signed by Nording himself.
- Eric N. Squires