Butz-Choquin Jubilé Top 1252 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.  

Given that jubilé is French for “jubilee,” I would suspect that this particular Butz-Choquin was produced to mark a special year in the make’s history. My money would be on 2008, which would have been 150 years after Butz-Choquin’s founding. The design is curiously Danish, though Butz-Choquin, over its long history, has been quick to keep up with times and trends. Taking the form of a panel shank Dublin, with an ivory-like ferrule and slightly flared stem, it is very much in keeping with Butz-Choquin’s style in the early 20th century, while also simply being a very good looking piece.

The condition is good. Some inner rim darkening, a couple of scratches on the shank, and a slightly worn out mortise, though the stem fits snug and without issue.

 

Details:

Length: 6.2″ / 157.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.91 / 23.11mm

Bowl Depth: 1.53″ / 38.86mm

Weight: 1.8oz / 52g