English Estates: Dunhill Root Briar with Silver (4110) (2008) Tobacco Pipe

On Dunhill's standardized shape chart, the "10" typically denotes a Liverpool, but it can also refer to Bing's Favorite Billiard. The difference between the two shapes is rather striking: While the Liverpool consists of a protracted round shank and an abbreviated tapered stem, the Bing's Favorite variant features a longer stem that's more harmoniously balanced with the shank, though the shank-and-stem arrangement, in its entirety, remains slender of build. This particular rendition is the Bing's Favorite Billiard, and it positions a tall, upright bowl at the fore of a gracile shank-and-stem arrangement for a sleek, streamlined appearance in profile. Even given its Group-4 size, the overall composition remains lightweight and comfortable in hand. It's dressed here in the vaunted Root Briar finish and accented with a band of sterling silver.

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.