Chacom Golden Grain 124 Bent Pot 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.

This Chacom is from the long-discontinued ‘Golden Grain’ series. You can probably see why it got the name; the bowl is high-grade briar from Chacom’s famously good stock at its Saint-Claude campus, accentuated by a simple, lightly applied golden-brown stain. The lightness of the stain allows us to see the mixture of natural flame grain and bird’s-eye as clear as can be, while the silver collar and hand-cut, jet-black stem serve as complementary design elements to further elevate the sheen of the briar.

This Chacom is also completely unsmoked, and comes with its original box and sleeve. Like many Chacom pipes, this one comes with a stinger fitted as standard, but it is designed to be easily unscrewed if you prefer smoking without one. The band has some corrosion from years of sitting in storage. We’ve discounted the pipe as a result.

 

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.86 / 21.84mm

Bowl Depth: 1.4″ / 35.56mm

Weight: 1.5oz / 44g