Smooth Rhodesian with Boxwood (10) Tobacco Pipe

Odds Bodkins, what a shape. what a grain! Tonni Nielsen granted this pipe a ten out of a possible ten, meaning that the totality of the composition is his very best prior to entering the rarely seen "Viking" Grade. As amazing as this might sound, prior to about two years ago, I had never encountered the rhodesian/bulldog shape from Tonni. I am not declaring that he didn't make them prior to that (for that seems to be an impossibility), no doubt that I had merely been "walking between the rain drops" for the roughly four years leading up to my initial exposure. I was highly impressed by the form of the first one I held, and each one thereafter seems to improve on the one before it. The totality of this pipe is amazing.

--Bear Graves