Don Carlos Rusticated Dublin Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates [SOLD OUT]

Description

Don Carlos belongs to a historic lineage within Italian pipe making. The workshop was founded by Bruto Sordini (along with his wife Rosaria), who had previously made pipes for Mastro de Paja, where he also met Giancarlo Guidi. In 1981, Sordini and Guidi left Mastro de Paja to found their own workshop, Ser Jacopo. After years of making pipes at Ser Jacopo, Sordini once again departed to found a new venture, as he had ideas for shapes and styles that were quite different to Ser Jacopo’s established design philosophy. Sordini therefore created Don Carlos as a means of expressing this vision, resulting in pipes that are both quintessentially Italian, and bearing aesthetic that is wholly their own.

I am always amazed at how some artisans are able to make pipes that are very large, yet not at all heavy. This Don Carlos is seven inches long, with a shank that is thin, but not ‘pencil thin,’ yet it is under 50 grams. Must be the briar, I suppose. The pipe itself is an interesting shape, blending and stretching elements from the traditional Lovat, Dublin, and Rhodesian, while dressed in a very Italian pebble-dash partial rustication.

The condition is excellent. The finish on the rim has some very minor fading, but it’s nothing I would worry about.

 

Details:

Length: 7″ / 177.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.85 / 21.59mm

Bowl Depth: 1.83″ / 46.48mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 48g