Chacom Silver Line 212 Smooth Lovat 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 Silver Line isn’t a series that’s made anymore, and even the nomenclature looks like quite an old version of the Chacom name. I presume it was a fairly high grade line, as its stem is hand cut, and it wears an ornate silver collar, as the name suggests. This one is a traditional English-French Lovat, of around a group 3 size. Given these proportions, the pipe is exceptionally lightweight, and is both highly portable and a comfortable clencher.

This Silver Line is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating to help ease in its first smokes. The pipe also comes with its original box and sleeve.

 

Details:

Length: 5.7″ / 144.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.82 / 20.82mm

Bowl Depth: 1.58″ / 40.13mm

Weight: 1.2oz / 36g