Italian Estates: Gabriele Sandblasted Vulker (Turtle) Tobacco Pipe

This style of playfully forward canted Poker is something of a signature shape from Gabriele dal Fiume, consistently featuring a tall bowl with an almost "drunken" sense of forward stance balanced by a more streamlined, trim shank and stem. Suffice to say, it makes for quite a striking, even whimsical silhouette in profile while serving as a stable sitter. This example is finished in a low-profile, deeply stained sandblast, bringing out an array of texture and grain around the stummel while keeping the lines of the shape quite well-defined.