Butz Choquin Maitre Pipier Extra Smooth Horn 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.

Butz-Choquin made great, reliable factory briars in the grand old French tradition. But they also offered entirely hand-made pieces, including the Maître-Pipier series. Maître-Pipier is French for “master pipe-maker,” and Butz-Choquin weren’t kidding with this designation, as these pipes were made by genuine masters—who were, of course, the aforementioned Lanier and Albuisson. Sometimes these Maître-Pipier models were also graded, such as with qualifications like Deluxe, Extra, or Special. This one is an Extra grade horn, with a slight Danish flair to it, with plenty of bird’s-eye and flame grain dressed in a light brown stain.

The condition is very good. Some very slight inner rim charring.

 

Details:

Length: 5.6″ / 142.2mm

Bowl Width: 0.87 / 22.09mm

Bowl Depth: 1.62″ / 41.14mm

Weight: 1.9oz / 54g