Caminetto New Dear Rusticated Stack Bent Billiard (Estate)

About this pipe:

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.”

Though figural motifs have been used in pipe carving for centuries, in the context of Italian workshop pipes, so-called “wax drip” finishes can be traced back to Castello and the “Epoca,” an early line that was removed from regular production in the 1960s. The Epoca was reborn, one might say, at Caminetto, under the direction of two former Castello craftsmen, Guiseppe Ascorti and Luigi Radice, whose own rendition was named the “New Dear.” After Caminetto disbanded in the 1970s (and prior to being restarted in the 1980s), Luigi Radice and Guiseppe Ascorti started their own workshops once again, this time separately. Each took the wax-drip motif and renewed it once more: Radice with his “Underwood”; and Ascorti with his own version of the “New Dear.”

As mentioned, the Caminetto make was resurrected by the Ascortis in the mid-1980s, and so too was the New Dear proper, though ultimately it came to adorn a new selection of shapes. Here we find it on a positively stacked, full bent, “goose egg” bent billiard rendition, one whose tall, broad sides make for an ample canvas to show off the New Dear’s signature waxy carvings.

The condition is great. Some very slight darkening and finish fading on the rim, but overall very well looked after.

Details:

Length: 5.97″ / 151.6mm

Chamber Width: 0.84″ / 21.33mm

Chamber Depth: 2.20″ / 55.88mm

Bowl Height: 2.45″ / 62.23mm

Weight: 2.2oz / 62g