Comoy’s Christmas 1987 Smooth Straight Billiard Estate Briar Pipe, English Estates

Description

Comoy’s is a historic brand in pipe making, and possibly the most historic brand in the making of briar pipes. Though originally founded in 1825 by a French family from Saint Claude, France, production of Comoy’s pipes was soon moved to London, England, where it established itself as one of the quintessential English pipe companies.

While Christmas pipes today are more readily associated with Savinelli or Peterson, the great English (or in this case, English-French) makes have been putting out limited edition seasonal offerings for far longer than either. Though, as far as I’m aware, Comoy’s stopped making Christmas pipes in the 2010s, the make had been producing them since the 1970s at least. This one is from 1987. It is an eminently traditional billiard with appropriately excellent grain, especially in its bird’s-eye patterns around the bowl.

The condition is very good. There’s some darkening, finish fading, and a couple of small scratches on the rim, and some light tooth marks on the stem, but nothing major.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.89 / 22.60mm

Bowl Depth: 1.65″ / 41.91mm

Weight: 1.5oz / 44g