Ser Jacopo L1 Smooth Lumberman Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Ser Jacopo is one of the most famous contemporary examples of high-grade, workshop-made Italian pipes. It also belongs to a very special tradition in Italian pipe making, having been established by Giancarlo Guidi and Bruno Sordini after the two had left another great Italian workshop, Mastro de Paja. Together, Guidi and Sordini created a brand of pipes that reflected their Renaissance sensibilities – even the figurehead of Ser Jacopo happens to be taken from a painting of a nobleman from centuries past—one that would soon become esteemed for creating unique and beautiful tobacco pipes that smoked just as perfectly as they looked.

While Ser Jacopo pipes can often be grandiose and, sometimes, even avant-garde in form, the workshop has never forgotten its beginnings in the Pesaro tradition. In the 1970s, Giancarlo Guidi et al. (then operating under the banner of Mastro de Paja) sought to craft handmade pipes with the beauty and precision of their counterparts in Europe and America, but rather than simply follow the booming Danish styles, they remained faithful to the classics. They made billiards, Dublins, Rhodesians, and calabashes, utilizing modern techniques and a more “Italian” approach to finishes to breathe new life into such forms. After leaving Mastro de Paja to found Ser Jacopo, pipes of that nature remained a staple of the new workshop’s output, even as it explored the more artistic side of pipe design in its other wares.

This particular Ser Jacopo is one of many examples of the workshop upholding its “Pesaro school” roots, being a large, yet still strongly classical lumberman rendition, covered in the kind of flame grain is best achieved “a mano.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating, and comes with its original box and sleeve.

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.84 / 21.33mm

Bowl Depth: 1.79″ / 45.46mm

Weight: 1.8oz / 52g