American Estates: Nathan Armentrout Sandblasted Billiard Tobacco Pipe

This straight Billiard from Nathan Armentrout presents the compact, rather muscular shaping embodied in the American school of design, the bowl lent a bit more stoutness and supple curvature than your typical English Billiard. It's poised at the end of a shank that's imbued with equal heartiness and topped by an elegantly tapered, vulcanite stem of ebony hues, save for a trim, creamy band at its base. The stummel, then, is dressed in a low-profile sandblast, showing off handsome, wavy growth rings on both flanks, with a very trim ring of smooth briar at the shank end lending contrast.