Savinelli Capri Root Briar 824 Rusticated Brandy Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates [SOLD OUT]

Description

It is probably fair to say that Savinelli is Italy’s most famous pipe brand. Founded in Milan in 1876 by Achille Savinelli, the brand has continuously produced high quality pipes for nearly 150 years. Though various Savinelli lines have come and gone over the years, the brand has always been notable for putting out classically styled pipes with a distinctly Italian twist.

Savinelli’s Capri series were some of the earliest pipes offered by the make, and have been in and out of production throughout the make’s lifetime, though they were last made at least a decade ago. They feature the quintessentially Italian, pebble-dash rustication motif found across the nation’s great makes – Castello’s Sea Rock, Caminetto’s Business, Radice’s Rind, and so on. This Capri Root Briar wears a burgundy-black stain over its rocky stummel, and is rendered in the fairly rare ‘824’ brandy-lumberman hybrid, a shape that was far more common in the decades before the turn of the 21st century than it is now. Similarly rare is the pipe’s stem, which is vulcanite rather than the now-standard lucite, and is not chambered for a 6mm filter, as most Savinelli pipes are these days.

The condition is near-mint. I don’t see anything that needs highlighting on this one. It’s a beaut.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.77 / 19.55mm

Bowl Depth: 1.75″ / 44.45mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 48g