Merchant Service Smooth Full Bent Oom Paul Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Merchant Service was, originally, a mid-century British pipe brand founded by Herbert Merchant, and is today most remembered for manufacturing the pencil-shank billiard pipes favored by Bing Crosby. As with so many pipe companies of days gone by, Herbert Merchant Inc. was ultimately dissolved, with the Merchant Service story seemingly coming to a close—until something quite special happened. The Merchant Service name was purchased by another pipe maker—this time an American artisan and Anglophile—named Gregory Polla. Polla’s love for not only the classic “Bing” model, but English pipe design more generally, led him to revive Merchant Service pipes. This he does as a “one-man factory” crafting limited runs of iconic, traditional shapes in his personal workshop. This particular Merchant Service, by Polla, is one of his “Full Bent” models, a fittingly named bent billiard that evokes the beloved Oom Paul shapes of early briar pipes.

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

Details:

Length: 5.6″ / 142.2mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.54″ / 39.11mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 46g