Ascorti 40th Anniversary Partially Sandblasted Dublin Sitter Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Ascorti belongs to a historic lineage in Italian artisan pipe-making. Guiseppe ‘Peppino’ Ascorti was first employed as a pipe-maker in the 1950s, in Carlo Scotti’s Castello workshop in Cantu. There he met Luigi Radice, and in the 1960s the two decided to leave Castello to create their own pipe-making workshop, under the name ‘Caminetto.’ At the end of the 1970s, Guiseppe Ascorti and Luigi Radice left Caminetto and once more decided to start new ventures. Luigi Radice founded the Radice pipe workshop, and Guiseppe’s son Roberto Ascorti, who had also worked in the Caminetto workshop since he was a child, decided to create a workshop under his own name. Roberto was joined not only by his father, but also many of the talented craftsmen who had formerly worked for Caminetto. In 1980, the Ascorti workshop was born.

This pipe, made in 2020 as part of a limited series for the 40^th anniversary of Ascorti, is a quintessentially Italian reinterpretation of the traditional Dublin sitter. As this pipe was part of a limited run several years ago, it is long out of production. Thankfully, we were able to acquire a couple of unsmoked, new old stock pipes from that event, owing to a collector who sent them into our trade-in program.

The pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating from the Ascorti workshop. It also comes with its original presentation box, sleeve, and certificate.

 

Details:

Length: 5″ / 127.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.84 / 21.33mm

Bowl Depth: 1.57″ / 39.87mm

Weight: 1.5oz / 46g