Chacom Complice 871 Smooth Author Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Chacom is one of France’s most historic and iconic makes. Its founders, the Comoy family, began their career as boxwood pipe-makers in the early 1800s, before briar had even been discovered, with Henri Comoy (of Comoy’s fame) emigrating to England in 1879 and founding the country’s first briar pipe factory. In 1922, Henri and his nephews, the Chapuis, founded the Chapuis Comoy pipe factory in Saint-Claude, France, which shortly after began producing pipes bearing the partnered families’ names – ‘Cha’ for Chapuis, and ‘Com’ for Comoy. Chacom has been the biggest name in French pipes ever since.

We had a bunch of NOS (new old stock) Chacoms come in a few months ago, having purchased them from a closed-down tobacconist in Spain, of all places (they call them Estanca over there). If you’ve been watching our listings in the time since, you’ll have seen a few of them already. I’ll admit, going through all those pipes from various decades really re-ignited my appreciation for the Chacom brand. This one looks more modern, but still has that classic, Anglo-French charm that Chacom themselves helped pioneer.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, and comes with its original box and sleeve. The box itself is slightly time-worn, but nothing at all major.

Details:

Length: 5.8″ / 147.3mm

Bowl Width: 0.76 / 19.30mm

Bowl Depth: 1.24″ / 31.49mm

Weight: 1.9oz / 56g