Butz Choquin Calabash Sandblasted w/Acrylic Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked, 9mm

Description

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.

Butz-Choquin’s Calabash, also known as the Calabash Top, was a limited-edition series of pipes created around the late-2000s. While it is not a true calabash, as the pipe’s large chamber and bowl are one, single piece of briar, it nonetheless emulates the aesthetics of that most famous shape within pipe smoking. This one, for example, wears a dark, sandblasted finish, while also having a pearly-white “cap” that emulates the meerschaum used on traditional gourd calabashes. It also features a long ferrule cut from the same material, giving the overall design a striking two-tone palette.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating, having come to us in a large new old stock batch from a shop closure in Europe. It is chambered to allow for the use of 9mm filters if desired.

 

Details:

Length: 6.0″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.90 / 22.86mm

Bowl Depth: 1.93″ / 49.02mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 48g