Chacom Atlas Taupe 43 Smooth Bent 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 Atlas pipes are very distinctive in the grand scheme of things. But within the French context, they’re not that unusual. There is even a colloquial name for pipes of this sort, the “Fancy,” or “Fancy bruyere,” though it would be a mistake to think of them as part of the Danish style of pipes that bears the same name. Instead of wild, naturalistic forms, the novel designs of the French Fancy revolved around their finishes. Fancy bruyeres wore unusually colorful, painted finishes, ones that were often very striking, and even psychedelic at times. Unusually this is done via a specialized hydrographic technique, which is exactly how Chacom’s Atlas Taupe (French for “mole”) gets its signature, marbled luster.

This pipe is completely unsmoked.

Details:

Length: 5.9″ / 149.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.83 / 21.08mm

Bowl Depth: 1.75″ / 44.45mm

Weight: 1.9oz / 54g