Savinelli Punto Oro Super 515 KS Smooth Foursquare Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates

Description

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.

When Savinelli opened its Milan workshop in 1948, the first pipes made there carried the “Punto Oro,” or “gold point.” Like Dunhill and Sasieni before them, Savinelli pipes thus featured a dot inlay on the top of the stem to distinguish them as high quality smoking instruments. Over the subsequent decades, and with the release of numerous new Savinelli lines, the Punto Oro (and with it the Giubileo D’Oro) became a designation for some of Savinelli’s highest grade pipes, with only around 1% of Savinelli’s entire output earning this qualification. Even among Punto Oro pipes, however, there are some differences. Some Punto Oro pipes are sandblasted; others wear smooth reddish finishes, such as the Punto Oro Bordeaux and Burgundy; and others feature a much lighter, smooth polished hue. Here we find the Punto Oro Super, Natural, and Gold, which require even greater grain to deserve their minimal staining. This Punto Oro Super is rendered in Savinelli’s stout “515 KS” foursquare, or panel billiard, shape, which was discontinued from the make’s standard production many years ago. In fact, it has since only resurfaced in the Luisa Fiammata line, which exclusively used older stummels from Savinelli’s warehouses, and which were frequently for shapes that had had long been dropped from the make’s current shape chart.

The condition is good. Some wear and slight charring to the inner rim, and a few handling marks.

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.90 / 22.86mm

Bowl Depth: 1.71″ / 43.43mm

Weight: 1.8oz / 52g