English Estates: Dunhill Root Briar Billiard (DR***) (1983) (Unsmoked) Tobacco Pipe

This thoroughly traditional Billiard from Dunhill, a light, compact iteration of the timeless shape, is a stunning example of the top-quality briar and keen-eyed shaping that have made the English marque beloved for generations. A slender rendition of the shape chart standard, the stummel acts as an excellent display for the stummel's remarkably well-developed grain. Dressed in Dunhill's light Root Briar stain, this pipe boasts tight striations of flame grain in abundance. The balanced composition of the pipe, with its tapered vulcanite stem, ensures that this pipe is both a beauty to behold and a great pipe to smoke. An exceptionally rare piece, this Root Briar has received the coveted Dead Root designation, with a grade of three stars to indicate the impeccable briar.

The highest honor for a Dunhill pipe is to receive the prestigious Root Briar appellation. Root Briars have been coveted by pipe smokers ever since they first debuted in 1931, due to the fact that each pipe must boast briar completely free of even the most minor of blemishes. Dunhill has the strictest of standards and expectations for quality with all of their pipes, and so any block of briar that comes to bear the Root Briar stamp must indeed be superlative.