Bonfiglioli 2022 Free Form Sandblasted Dublin Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Having been making pipes since 1974, Alberto Bonfiglioli is one of Italy’s most seasoned artisans. Based in Bologna, where he runs his own pipe store and local pipe club, Bonfiglioli today makes around 100 pipes per year, using only choice briar aged for at least a decade.

Alberto Bonfiglioli’s Free Form series is where he lets his more creative side out, eschewing traditional pipe shapes for those closer to the Danish fancy “freehand” pipe, as the name suggests. This one is very much faithful to that genre, taking the form of an extra large, plateaux-topped, copper-collared freehand Dublin-hawkbill hybrid. Somewhat uncommonly for Italian pipes, this one wears a very craggy, ring grain sandblast, with ring grain brought into the kind of relief one would expect from a mid-century Fossil, or Shell Briar.

This pipe is completely unsmoked. There’s a slight, superficial scratch on the shank, just at the nomenclature, but nothing major by any measure. It comes with its original box and sleeve.

 

Details:

Length: 6.8″ / 172.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.94 / 23.87mm

Bowl Depth: 1.66″ / 42.16mm

Weight: 3.7oz / 106g