Ascorti Business KS Rusticated Dublin Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates

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.

Many Italian pipe makers have a form of pebble-dash rustication in their portfolio, but there are few that can claim as historic a lineage as Ascorti’s Business line. It is a finish that Ascorti inherited from Caminetto, and which Caminetto in turn likely inherited from Castello, mutating and evolving as craftsmen passed from workshop to workshop. This “King Size” Dublin rendition is especially refined, no doubt in part thanks to its combination with a smooth rim, a silver collar, and Ascorti’s signature asymmetrical saddle stem (another inheritance from Caminetto).

The condition is great. Minor inner rim darkening.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.84 / 21.33mm

Bowl Depth: 1.80″ / 45.72mm

Weight: 1.8oz / 52g