Butz Choquin Cobra De Luxe Smooth Cobra (Estate)

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.

The cobra has been a staple of “Danish-style” pipe making for many decades, though quite curiously, one of the most interesting contributions to the genre was not by a Dane (or a Swede), but by the French company Butz-Choquin. The latter’s Cobra was one of the few examples of a mass produced rendition of such a shape in a properly faithful manner, and in some ways it was more “cobra-like” than its Scandinavian counterparts, with a distinctive “hood” and snaking figure just like its namesake. Though the Butz-Choquin Cobra was available in a variety of finishes, this one wears the simple, light brown, De Luxe dress, giving full voice to the shape’s hallmark use of cross-grain and bird’s-eye.

The condition is good. Minor inner rim charring, some small scratches, and slight handling marks.

Details:

Length: 6.2″ / 157.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.49″ / 37.84mm

Weight: 1.7oz / 50g