Italian Estates: Ser Jacopo Millennium Edizione Limite Smooth Calabash (04) (Unsmoked) Tobacco Pipe

This lengthy Calabash was part of Ser Jacopo's Millennium line, a limited-edition series of pipes designed to celebrate the year 2000 and the new millennium. Shape-wise, this piece possesses the overhanging rim, tapered bowl, and sinuously bent shank-and-stem arrangement associated with the form. The bowl houses a capacious chamber over two inches deep, ensuring plenty of long, luxurious smoking sessions, which the sweeping shank-and-stem arrangement is poised to aid. The negative space above the transition offers ample room to drape a digit and allows the eye to appreciate either end of the pipe. An auburn smooth finish dresses the stummel and highlights gorgeous grain across the briar's surface, while a metallic band adorns the junction and ties the composition together with a dose of flash.

--Davin Hylton