Radice Rind Collect Magnum Rusticated Horn Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates

Description

Radice is one of the great Italian workshop pipe makes, belonging to a historic lineage of such workshops. The company began as a family affair, being established in 1980 by Luigi Radice, along with his son, Gianluca, and father, Paolo. But Radice’s pipe-making ‘family’ is a little larger than that. Prior to founding Radice, Luigi ran Caminetto, which he had founded with Guiseppe Ascorti in 1968. Prior to Caminetto, Radice had worked alongside Ascorti in the Castello factory, under the supervision of its owner, Carlo Scotti. It’s quite an impressive genealogy, which is clearly reflected in the quality of Radice pipes.

Like Castello’s Great Line and Big Line, Radice’s Collect grade pipes are among the workshop’s largest creations. They are also, however, avenues for the workshop to explore shapes and styles of pipes that are distinct from other, more typical Radice designs. This Collect is dressed in Radice’s signature Rind rustication (which elsewhere I’ve mused may have been inspired by the look and feel of citrus fruits), but it is also a magnum-sized, freehand horn shape that leans toward modern Danish and American artisan works.

The condition is excellent. Some very slight inner rim darkening, but the pipe nonetheless is remarkably preserved.

 

Details:

Length: 7″ / 177.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.95 / 24.13mm

Bowl Depth: 2.09″ / 53.08mm

Weight: 2.9oz / 84g