Caminetto Business Rusticated Apple w/ Silver Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates

Description

Caminetto was, and is to this day, a decisive figure in the history of Italy’s pipe workshop tradition. After spending time developing their skills in the Castello workshop, Guiseppe Ascorti and Luigi Radice left to found their own venture, which they named, “Caminetto.” Here, Ascorti and Radice were able to create their own now-classic shapes and finishes, such as the rusticated “Business,” and the carved, wax-drip “New Dear.”

In 1981, just a few years after the departure of Guiseppe Ascorti and Luigi Radice, the Caminetto workshop mysteriously burned down. But, like the proverbial phoenix, Caminetto would rise again from the [quite literal] ashes, this time stewarded by Guiseppe’s son, Roberto Ascorti, who was joined by his own son, Tomaso Ascorti. This Caminetto looks to be from around 1995, back during Roberto’s time at the helm. It’s an unmistakably Italian pipe—certainly, at least, in the tradition of Italian high-grades—from its modern reinterpretation of the classic bent apple, to its stony, pebble-dash rustication and, of course to its sterling silverware, which in this instance takes the form of a sterling silver faux spigot mount.

The condition is good. Slight rim darkening and finish fading.

 

Details:

Length: 6.4″ / 162.5mm

Bowl Width: 0.86 / 21.84mm

Bowl Depth: 1.66″ / 42.16mm

Weight: 2.8oz / 82g