Ed Burak Connoisseur XL Partially Rusticated Bent Egg Estate Briar Pipe, American Estates

Description

Known as the “dean of American pipe designers” Ed Burak was not a pipe maker per se. Rather, Burak was someone who worked with the master carvers of his time to bring his distinct ideas of what a pipe could be to life. As the owner of the Connoisseur Pipe Shop, Burak designed freehand pipes so singularly representative of pipe making as an artistic endeavor, that many of the resulting works ended up in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Though Ed Burak’s pipes spanned a vast variety of shapes and styles, there were, nonetheless, certain motifs that he liberally incorporated across the entirety of his career. Burak’s pipes were often very large, for example, and they were often very modern re-imaginings of traditional, Anglo-French standards. And, as has been mentioned time and again in our listings of Burak’s pipes, he was seemingly infatuated with sharp bends, with his designs frequently featuring difficult-to-achieve, rollercoaster curvatures from button to base. This apple/egg rendition is no exception, and indeed it almost looks like a Dunhill LC, but for its comparatively squat, round bowl.

The condition is very good. Slight finish fading.

Details:

Length: 6.6″ / 167.6mm

Bowl Width: 0.89 / 22.60mm

Bowl Depth: 1.75″ / 44.45mm

Weight: 2.3oz / 66g