Mastro Geppetto 202 Rusticated Large Dublin Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Mastro Geppetto pipes are made by the Italian workshop brand Ser Jacopo. One could call them Ser Jacopo’s series of ‘affordable’ pipes, and while this would be correct purely from the standpoint of price, it wouldn’t be entirely fair to them in other regards. Geppetto pipes are hand made from the same high-grade briar as Ser Jacopo pipes, but the former do not use the plateau cuts that the latter does, which are more expensive; Geppetto pipes also tend to be simpler shapes, meaning they do not require the use of the highly technical flexible drilling machinery that Ser Jacopo’s wilder shapes do.

Ser Jacopo’s Mastro Geppetto brand has been something of a masterstroke in Italian pipes, offering high-quality, handmade Italian workshop pipes in styles more in keeping with the time-honored Anglo-French approach to pipe design. This one, for example, is a very traditional, large Dublin rendition, though one dressed in the more Italian stylings of Ser Jacopo’s pebble-dash rustication, adding a nice twist to a time-honored design.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating.

Details:

Length: 6.5″ / 165.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.85″ / 21.59mm

Bowl Depth: 1.73″ / 43.94mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 48g