Designer: Carl Auböck II (1900 – 1957)

Item: For Your Pipe Dreams brass pipe paperweight Model #5188

Manufactured by: Werkstätte Carl Auböck

Country of origin: Austria

Year made: Circa late 1950s

Materials: Brass.

Dimensions: 1 ½” x 5 ¼” x 1”

Condition: Excellent

Description: Here is an another of the whimsical and fun Auböck designs for a paperweight, this one fashioned as a tobacco pipe. This design is found in both Archives books. It should be noted that the title as is found in the Archive books is whimsically “for you piped reams” riffing on pipe dreams, but as this was a paperweight to hold down paper objects on a desk the word “ream” for paper. It is a heavy and solid object that functions well as a paperweight. These were reissued by the Werkstätte in the last several years, but this is a genuine vintage version.

References: Auböck, Carl IV, die kataloge der werkstätte carl auböck 1925 – 1975, Carl Auböck Archive (2005); Auböck, Carl IV, die arbeiten der Werkstätte carl auböck – fotografiert von 1948 – 2005, Carl Auböck Archive (2009); Wright Auction Catalog; The Workshop: Carl Auböck Designs 1930-1980 (2016).