Ashton Achievement ELX Sandblasted Panel Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Ashton is an English pipe brand created by William Ashton Taylor, a former Dunhill pipe-maker who left Dunhill in the 1980s to make pipes under his own name. Along with other pipe-makers such as Ken Barnes and Barry Jones of James Upshall and Les Wood of Ferndown, Ashton emerged as part of a new wave of high end, hand made British pipes in the late 20th century.

Ashton’s Achievement series is unique compared the workshop’s other lines, in that it is marked not by a central, distinguishing feature (such as the burgundy sandblast or natural sandblast of the Pebble Grain and Old Church respectively), but by designs that are, quite simply, extraordinary, and which therefore do not fit neatly within the more established categories of Ashton pipes. Sometimes this means unconventional accents or ferrules, and other times it means shapes not typically found in the workshop’s portfolio. This one is an extra, extra large (ELX), panel (or foursquare) sitter, evocative of Dunhill OD shapes—and, by extension, Ashton’s fellow Dunhill-inspired contemporaries, such as J.T. Cooke.

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

 

Details:

Length: 7.4″ / 187.9mm

Bowl Width: 0.93 / 23.62mm

Bowl Depth: 1.89″ / 48.00mm

Weight: 3.8oz / 110g