Butz-Choquin Calabash 2000 Smooth Calabash (Estate)

About this pipe:

With its origins in an 1858 collaboration between Jean-Baptiste Choquin and Gustave Butz, Butz-Choquin ultimately become one of the premier smoking pipe companies in 20th century France. The brand is known both for its stylish variations on traditional English-French shapes and for its exploration of atypical and elaborate finishes. The brand is also known for its collaborations with celebrated French pipe-makers, such as Paul Lanier and Alain Albuisson, who made some of Butz-Choquin’s highest-grade pipes for the company.

Calabashes were something of a staple in Butz-Choquin’s output, which exhibited various approaches to the form across the decades. Typically, these were one-piece designs, rather than the two-piece of the traditional gourd calabash, though Butz-Choquin’s renditions were nonetheless very large and deep chambered, just like the calabashes of old.

The condition is very good. Very slight inner rim darkening, minor handling marks, and minor oxidation on the mouthpiece.

Details:

Length: 6.17″ / 156.7mm

Chamber Width: 0.94″ / 23.87mm

Chamber Depth: 2.36″ / 59.94mm

Bowl Height: 2.56″ / 65.02mm

Weight: 2.3oz / 64g