Ed Burak Connoisseur Smooth Stack Egg Estate Briar Pipe, American Estates

Description

Known as the “dean of American pipe designers” Ed Burak was not a pipe-maker per se. Rather, Burak was someone who worked with the master carvers of his time to bring his distinct ideas of what a pipe could be to life. As the owner of the Connoisseur Pipe Shop, Burak designed freehand pipes so singularly representative of pipe-making as an artistic endeavor, that many of the resulting works ended up in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

If there’s two things I associate with Ed Burak’s pipes, it’s tall bowls and deep bends. This Connoisseur, of Burak’s design, certainly ticks both boxes, and might just be my favorite of his that I’ve yet seen. It’s a slightly Danish bent egg (think Sixten Ivarsson and his early Stanwell shape 85, or Gert Holbek and his various Dan Shapes), with some really beautiful cross and flame grain. Despite its gargantuan height, it’s not at all heavy, and should make for a very comfortable hanger.

The condition is very good.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 2.28″ / 57.91mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g