Brebbia Lectura Sandblasted Churchwarden Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates

Description

Named for the company’s home township, Brebbia was founded in 1953 by Enea Buzzi, an alum of Savinelli’s manufacturing division. Still in operation 70 years later, Brebbia is one of Italy’s oldest extant pipe companies, with production still being undertaken using simple lathes and traditional methods of hand finishing. More recently, Brebbia has also collaborated with master artisan carvers from across to design some of its pipes, such as Denmark’s Rainer Barbi, Germany’s Otto Pollner and Holger Frickert, Italy’s Fausto Fincato, and Japan’s Tsuge.

While in the English-speaking world, pipes with especially long stems are associated with parish officials, in Italy (and France), they’re more commonly associated with reading. In other words, the function of the long stem is to allow a pipe to be smoked while one is enjoying a good book—and not just the good book. Hence, this 11-inch Brebbia, dressed in a quintessentially Italian rocky rusticated finish, is named Lectura, the Italian for “reading.”

-J.M.

The condition is great. Some minor rim darkening.

 

Details:

Length: 11.4″ / 289.5mm

Bowl Width: 0.79 / 20.06mm

Bowl Depth: 1.4″ / 35.56mm

Weight: 1.5oz / 44g