Chacom Silver Line 42, Smooth Bent Billiard 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.

Chacom’s Silver Line isn’t a series that’s made anymore. Even the nomenclature looks like quite an old version of the Chacom name. It appears that part of the reasoning behind the series name is the lovely, ornate silver collar on the shank. The ones I’ve seen are also generally very beautiful pipes – well made ones – so perhaps that factored into it too. This one is a classic bent billiard, dressed in a contrast stain of ruby red and plum. It’s a pipe that’s likely to turn heads from admirers, pipe smokers or otherwise. Where you decide to take it, though, is up to you.

The pipe is completely unsmoked, with a factory-original bowl coating to help ease in its first smokes. It also comes with its original box and sock.

 

Details:

Length: 5.6″

Bowl Width: 20.0mm

Bowl Depth: 1.6″

Weight: 1.5oz / 44g