Don Carlos 1 Note Rusticated Billiard w/ Bamboo Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates

Description

Don Carlos belongs to a historic lineage within Italian pipe making. The workshop was founded by Bruto Sordini (along with his wife Rosaria), who had previously made pipes for Mastro de Paja, where he also met Giancarlo Guidi. In 1981, Sordini and Guidi left Mastro de Paja to found their own workshop, Ser Jacopo. After years of making pipes at Ser Jacopo, Sordini once again departed to found a new venture, as he had ideas for shapes and styles that were quite different to Ser Jacopo’s established design philosophy. Sordini therefore created Don Carlos as a means of expressing this vision, resulting in pipes that are both quintessentially Italian, and bearing aesthetic that is wholly their own.

Though the Sordinis make use of various accents for their Don Carlos pipes, bamboo features far less prominently in their output than other materials. In fact, bamboo is relatively uncommon in Italian pipes, especially among artisans of the Pesaro tradition. Yet here it’s been used quite interestingly, with its golden tones providing a nice contrast against the bowl’s very Italian, dark, pebble-dash rusticated finishing. In this instance the bamboo has also been used to provide considerable length to the design, with an almost Bing-like figure, or perhaps a very unique take on the “reading pipe.”

The condition is fair. Some rim charring and general finish fading.

Details:

Length: 7.1″ / 180.34mm

Bowl Width: 0.86 / 21.84mm

Bowl Depth: 1.63″ / 41.40mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 48g