Ascorti Business KS Rusticated Stack Brandy Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates

Description

Ascorti belongs to a historic lineage in Italian artisan pipe-making. Guiseppe “Peppino” Ascorti was first employed as a pipe-maker in the 1950s, in Carlo Scotti’s Castello workshop in Cantu. There he met Luigi Radice, and in the 1960s the two decided to leave Castello to create their own pipe-making workshop, under the name “Caminetto.” At the end of the 1970s, Guiseppe Ascorti and Luigi Radice left Caminetto and once more decided to start new ventures. Luigi Radice founded the Radice pipe workshop, and Guiseppe’s son Roberto Ascorti, who had also worked in the Caminetto workshop since he was a child, decided to create a workshop under his own name. Roberto was joined not only by his father, but also many of the talented craftsmen who had formerly worked for Caminetto. In 1980, the Ascorti workshop was born.

The first dissolution of the Caminetto workshop, which occurred at the end of the 1970s, would ultimately give way to three new makes: Radice, Ascorti, and, later, a new Caminetto (four, if one counts Capitello). Of all of the makes that emerged after Caminetto’s initial demise, Ascorti would be the one to “carry the torch,” as it were, when it came to replicating the aesthetic of its predecessor. In fact, Ascorti also retained much of the nomenclature of Caminetto pipes, hence the Ascorti Business was not only very similar to the Caminetto Business, but carried the same name. This one, for example, even maintains much of the shaping of older Caminetto pipes, shapes which were largely designed by Guiseppe Ascorti back in the day. A stout, stacked, slightly bent brandy, it’s a bold and muscular design, with a decidedly rugged approach to classic Italian “sea rock” rustication.

The condition is good. Some inner rim darkening, minor handling marks, and and minor tooth marks.

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.90 / 22.86mm

Bowl Depth: 1.90″ / 48.2mm

Weight: 2.1oz / 60g