Italian Estates: Castello Collection Fiammata Great Line Bent Dublin (KKKK) (2022) (Unsmoked) Tobacco Pipe

As part of the Great Line series, this bent Dublin from Castello boasts a rather impressive build, offering a bowl over two inches tall and over six and a half inches of length. The bowl flares from its plump, rounded heel to its wide, plateau-crowned rim, and as it does, it produces a cinched waistline that conforms naturally to the hand. In typical Italian neoclassical style, the bowl draws most of the visual weight within the composition, its height and thick insulating walls overshadowing the comparatively slender shank-and-stem arrangement that curves out back. The bowl's impressive chamber capacity ensures plenty of leisurely smoking sessions, which the shank-and-stem arrangement's elegant curvature is posed to aid. An auburn smooth finish dresses the stummel and highlights gorgeous strands of flame grain across the bowl's flanks. The flame grain on display here is so impressive that Castello awarded this pipe their "Fiammata" designation, which denotes pipes with truly exceptional flame grain.