Don Carlos 1 Note Smooth Rhodesian 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 Bruto and Rosari Sordini often work within the Anglo-French tradition as far as pipe designs go, their renditions of classic shapes nonetheless tend to have a distinctive, slightly unorthodox edge to them. There’s certainly something a little different about this Rhodesian, from its bulbous, apple-like bowl to its almost swan-neck curvature, though it is still recognizably a Rhodie—and a nice one, at that.

The condition is fair. Some inner rim charring, finish fading, and a couple of small scratches on the bowl.

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.85 / 21.59mm

Bowl Depth: 1.63″ / 41.40mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 46g