American Smoking Pipe Company Sandblasted Churchwarden Estate Briar Pipe, American Estates

Description

The American Smoking Pipe Company was founded in 1978 by artisans Mark Tinsky and Curt Rollar. Tinsky and Rollar’s venture was part of a new wave of North American hand made pipe making that emerged in the 1970s and ’80s, including artisan carvers such as Mike Butera, Tim West, Elliot Nachtwalter, and Jorg Jemelka. Despite the name, American Smoking Pipe Co. was not a factory or large scale operation, but a simple pipe workshop and name shared between friends. Rollar departed the company in 1990, after which Tinsky remained at the reins into the 2000s, before selling his pipes under his own name.

Churchwarden shapes are far from common in American artisan pipe making, and this includes the portfolio of Mark Tinsky and Curt Rollar’s American Smoking Pipe Company. But, as is the nature of the artisan’s craft, when a whim strikes, they will appear. This one is a lovely rendition of a churchwarden-length apple, with a superbly crisp, ring grain sandblast that sets it apart from 99% of pipes of its kind across the market.

The condition is great. Some minor inner rim darkening.

Details:

Length: 10.4″ / 264.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.86 / 21.84mm

Bowl Depth: 1.48″ / 37.59mm

Weight: 3.0oz / 86g