Becker & Musico (1999) Large Sandblasted Dublin with Silver Spigot (Estate)

The story of Becker & Musicò begins with the Becker family, perhaps the single greatest dynasty in Italian pipes. Fritz Becker and his son Paolo Becker took up pipe making together in the 1970s, and the high quality of their work caught the attention of Giorgio Musicò, manager of the Carmignani pipe shop in Rome. Carmignani sold Becker pipes for many years until, in 1990, the Becker and Musicò families came together to establish their own pipe shop, Becker & Musicò. It was in the workshop on the premises of Becker & Musicò that Paolo Becker and Giorgio’s son Massimo Musicò forged another pipe making partnership, crafting pipes under the Becker & Musicò brand. By 2002, Paolo had returned to making pipes under the Becker name and, by 2004, Becker & Musicò pipes were no more.

While the Becker family had their fondness for traditional forms, their pipes nonetheless displayed distinctly “Italian” proclivities. The Becker & Musicò venture was, thus, even more of a return to tradition in terms of style. More often than not, these pipes were faithful renditions of the classics of Anglo-French design, albeit made with the care and precision that only a high class artisan (or two, in this case) can muster.

This one, for example, is a very large, yet also very elegant, rendition of the humble Dublin, with a crisp, tan sandblast and a rather ornate, sterling silver spigot mount.

The condition is very good. A touch of inner rim charring and very slight tooth chatter.

Details:

Length: 6.4″ / 162.5mm

Bowl Width: 0.84 / 21.33mm

Bowl Depth: 1.70″ / 43.18mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 40g