Ed Burak Connoisseur Smooth Oom Paul Estate Briar Pipe, American Estates

Description

Known as the “dean of American pipe designers” Ed Burak was not a pipe-maker per se. Rather, Burak was someone who worked with the master carvers of his time to bring his distinct ideas of what a pipe could be to life. As the owner of the Connoisseur Pipe Shop, Burak designed freehand pipes so singularly representative of pipe-making as an artistic endeavor, that many of the resulting works ended up in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

While I’ve labeled it as an Oom Paul, and while there are certainly similarities with particular 20th century Oom Paul renditions (such as the Sasieni shape of the same name), it’s more of its own thing, thanks to a distinctively plump bowl. In a way, it reminds me a little of 17th and 18th century Ulmer pipes, Modernized in a way only Ed Burak could.

The condition is very good. Some rim darkening and a couple of small scratches on the bowl.

 

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.81 / 20.57mm

Bowl Depth: 1.90″ / 48.26mm

Weight: 2.3oz / 66g