Chacom Artisan 409 Smooth Rhodesian Billiard 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’s Artisan series is an interesting one. While it is no longer a series that is produced by Chacom, from what I’ve been able to gather, it was a series of more unorthodox shapes, paired with a hand-cut stem, and completed by an ivory-hued Juma accent. This one is a distinctive hybrid of the classic Maigret, better known in English-speaking world as a large billiard (such as that of Dunhill) and Rhodesian shapes, with its light brown stain highlighting copious bird’s-eye grain patterns.

Despite being from a discontinued series, this Artisan is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating. It also comes with its original (slightly time-worn) box and sleeve.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.84 / 21.33mm

Bowl Depth: 1.66″ / 42.16mm

Weight: 2.0oz / 58g