Brebbia Junior Noce 2765 Smooth Author Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

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.

Brebbia’s Junior line is at once affordable and on the more compact and lightweight side, fulfilling two connotations of its namesake. On the other hand, that doesn’t stop them from being genuinely beautiful, high-quality pipes; nor does it mean a substantial sacrifice of chamber volume. The Noce (“night”) finish is one of my personal favorites as far as Italian finishes go—dark, smoky, but without smothering the grain underneath.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating. It also comes with its  It is chambered to allow for 9mm filters, but comes with its own adapter if non-filtered use is prefered.

 

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.81 / 20.57mm

Bowl Depth: 1.15″ / 29.21mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 40g