Ropp Vintage Stout Sandblasted Bulldog Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Ropp is a historic French make, founded in 1870 by Eugène-Léon Ropp. Ropp’s original claim to fame was patenting the first pipes made from cherry wood, at a time when pipe-makers were still exploring which materials were most suitable to meet the needs and increasing numbers of tobacco pipe smokers. Later, Ropp established a workshop in Saint-Claude, the birthplace of the briar pipe, to produce pipes from this new standard of pipe production. Ropp still continued to produce cherry wood pipes alongside their briars, however, as many smokers favored the distinct look and smoking properties of the former.

Ropp would later be acquired by Chapuis-Comoy & Cie, best known today for manufacturing Chacom pipes. When Chapuis-Comoy re-launched the Ropp brand, it did so in a very interesting way. The stummels used for Ropp pipes now come from the vast warehouses of the Chapuis-Comoy campus in Saint-Claude, once home to scores of significant French pipe companies. Chapuis-Comoy has kept these stummels safe in the time since, and now gives new life to them as Ropp pipes. As one would expect, Ropp pipes like this Vintage Stout are eminently classical in style and, in the case of the Vintage series, are given horn stems to best match that old-world aesthetic.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, being new old stock from a shop acquisition.

Details:

Length: 4.9″ / 124.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.82 / 20.82mm

Bowl Depth: 1.60″ / 40.64mm

Weight: 1.0oz / 30g