Ser Jacopo L2 Smooth Poker Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Ser Jacopo is likely the most famous contemporary example of high-grade, workshop-made Italian pipes. It also belongs to a very special tradition in Italian pipe-making, having been established by Giancarlo Guidi and Bruno Sordini after the two had left another great Italian workshop, Mastro de Paja. Together, Guidi and Sordini created a brand of pipes that reflected their Renaissance sensibilities – even the figurehead of Ser Jacopo happens to be taken from a painting of a nobleman from centuries past – one that would soon become esteemed for creating unique and beautiful tobacco pipes that smoked just as well as they looked.

This particular Ser Jacopo looks to be a distinct interpretation of the classic poker and cherrywood shapes of English and French pipe-making. In fact, it reminds me quite a bit of Dunhill’s mid-century poker shapes, given the pipe’s slight forward lean and rounded rim (accentuated even further in this instance by a ridge line). Yet this still isn’t quite your average English poker; it’s broader and more muscular than most, with a paneled shank of similar heft. The pipe is an example of Ser Jacopo’s L2 grades, whose superior grain patterns earn them a light, strawberry-blonde stain that lets the briar underneath speak for itself.

This Ser Jacopo is also completely unsmoked. Having come to us via our trade-in program from a collector of Italian high-grades, it also includes its original box and sleeve.

 

Details:

Length: 5″ / 147.3mm

Bowl Width: 0.80 / 21.84mm

Bowl Depth: 1.5″ / 38.10mm

Weight: 2.3oz / 66g