Butz Choquin Fregate 1402 Smooth Dublin Estate Briar Pipe, French Estates

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.

Taking its name from the French for “frigate,” the Frégate is a very traditional Butz-Choquin line, but for one thing: its mouthpiece. The shaping is firmly classical, being rooted in Anglo-French design conventions, but the mouthpieces are semi-translucent, which I’ve heard—in a rather poetic turn of phrase—compared to glass polished by the rolling waves.

The condition is very good. Very slight inner rim darkening and a couple of small, worn out fills.

Details:

Length: 6.1″ / 154.9mm

Bowl Width: 0.86 / 21.84mm

Bowl Depth: 1.57″ / 39.87mm

Weight: 1.3oz / 38g