Michel Smooth Rhodesian Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Michel pipes were store-brand pipes made for Maison Michel, a North Carolina (USA) tobacconist run by Michel J. Mitchell between 1951 and 1980. Over the years, several prominent pipe-makers made pipes for Maison Michel, such as Charatan, Barling, and others.

While the pipes we’ve had come in from Maison Michel have all been very traditional Anglo-French shapes, this one may well be the most traditional of the lot. It is a slender, squat, saddle Rhodesian, in keeping with the briars of early French pipe-making, and is as elegant and lightweight as one would expect from that lineage.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating.

 

Details:

Length: 5.4″ / 137.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.76 / 19.30mm

Bowl Depth: 1.07″ / 27.17mm

Weight: 0.9oz / 28g