Chacom Anton by Tom Eltang Natural Smooth Apple Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Chacom is one of France’s most historic and iconic makes. Its founders, the Comoy family, began their career as boxwood pipe-makers in the early 1800s, before briar had even been discovered, with Henri Comoy (of Comoy’s fame) emigrating to England in 1879 and founding the country’s first briar pipe factory. In 1922, Henri and his nephews, the Chapuis, founded the Chapuis Comoy pipe factory in Saint-Claude, France, which shortly after began producing pipes bearing the partnered families’ names – ‘Cha’ for Chapuis, and ‘Com’ for Comoy. Chacom has been the biggest name in French pipes ever since.

Chacom has an extensive history of working with outside parties to design pipes for the company, whether it’s Claude Robin or Pierre Morel Jr. in France, or indeed Denmark’s legendary Tom Eltang. Thus far, Eltang has designed two shapes for Chacom: the Anton and the Oscar. Both were named after Eltang’s grandchildren, and both were (and still are) occasional shapes within the Danish master’s portfolio, which he returns to periodically in pipes made under his own name. The Anton, seen here, is a very classic Danish apple, but with a slight, Eltang-ian functionalist inflection—i.e., plump, organic, but also compact and not too heavy, either. This one is dressed in the highest-grade, and seldom seen, finish for the Eltang series, the Natural Waxed. As the name suggests, these pipes are given only a very light, natural wax polish, allowing their superior grain to do all the talking.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating, having come from a large purchase of new old stock.

Details:

Length: 5.1″ / 129.5mm

Bowl Width: 0.83 / 21.08mm

Bowl Depth: 1.26″ / 32.00mm

Weight: 1.3oz / 38g