Ascorti KS Smooth Stack Billiard 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.

The stack, or chimney, is not a shape I’m used to seeing from Italian pipe-makers, yet here is an extraordinary rendition from the Ascorti family. I have to wonder—were they at all inspired by the legendary stack shapes from Danish pipe workshop Pibe-Dan (AKA Pipe Dan)? Whatever the inspiration, it’s an impressive pipe, and with a chamber as large as it has, whoever buys it is certainly in for a long, relaxing smoke.

The condition is good. Some wear to the rim and minor handling marks.

 

Details:

Length: 6.2″ / 157.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.90 / 22.86mm

Bowl Depth: 2.33″ / 59.18mm

Weight: 2.0oz / 58g