Savinelli Autograph Sandblasted Dublin (Estate)

It is probably fair to say that Savinelli is Italy’s most famous pipe brand. Founded in Milan in 1876 by Achille Savinelli, the brand has continuously offered high quality pipes for nearly 150 years. Though various Savinelli lines have come and gone over the years, the brand has always been notable for putting out classically styled pipes with a distinctly Italian twist.

Like the freehand workshops of Denmark, England and Japan, Savinelli has its own, special area of the company’s campus reserved for master artisans, where non-standard pipe shapes are carved using techniques that are closer to handicraft than mechanized, mass production. The top of the line pipes produced in this workshop are the Savinelli Autograph pipes. Sometimes, these are hand-turned re-imaginings of more classic designs; other times, they’re pipes that are a little more like the Danish “fancy” freehands; and, most often, Autographs are somewhere in between, embodying a distinctly Italian approach to handmade pipes that sits about halfway between the English and Danish styles.

This one takes the form of an impressive stout Dublin, with a live plateau rim and an exceptional ring grain sandblast. I think this is one of the more recent pipes to have come out of Savinelli’s Autograph workshop, as it looks to pair the bowl’s earthy tones with a verdant green acrylic mouthpiece—adding a distinctive touch of color to the design, as Savinelli’s current pipes tend to do.

The condition is very good. Some inner rim darkening.

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.67″ / 42.41mm

Weight: 2.2oz / 64g