Brebbia 710 Jumbo Magnum Sandblasted Billiard Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Named for the company’s home township, Brebbia was founded in 1953 by Enea Buzzi, an alum of Savinelli’s manufacturing division. Still in operation 70 years later, Brebbia is one of Italy’s oldest extant pipe companies, with production still being undertaken using simple lathes and traditional methods of hand finishing. More recently, Brebbia has also collaborated with master artisan carvers from across to design some of its pipes, such as Denmark’s Rainer Barbi, Germany’s Otto Pollner and Holger Frickert, Italy’s Fausto Fincato, and Japan’s Tsuge.

As one might expect, the Jumbo line consisted of pipes well beyond the typical sizes of a Brebbia pipe—or, indeed, a pipe from just about any other make. But, as they were made by Brebbia, these mini-magnums were also more “Italian” in style than similar-sized pipes from, say, England, or America, where oversized pipes are most common. This one takes the form of Brebbia’s distinctive shape “710,” a stacked, oval shank, sitter billiard and sports a particularly craggy sandblasted finish—one thing that does bring it much closer to the classic magnums of the Anglophone world.

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

Details:

Length: 7″ / 177.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.91 / 23.11mm

Bowl Depth: 2.02″ / 51.30mm

Weight: 2.8oz / 82g