Rattray's: Fachen (106) (9mm) Tobacco Pipe

Product Number: 002-599-6657

Described by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, a four-volume compilation of fairy tales and Scottish folklore, the Fachen is a giant of singular features, displaying a single eye in the middle of its face, a single tuft of hair atop its head, a single hand protruding from its chest, and a single leg supporting it from below. Oddly enough, that description fits in quite well with the characteristics of a pipe: a single shank emerging from the side of a single bowl (like an arm from out of the chest), within which lies a single chamber (a myopic eye), and after issuing a charring light, such loose leaves of tobacco could very well resemble a tuft of hair. Such uncanny similarities have prompted the Scottish marque to devote a whole series to the mythical beast, offering pipes marked by a dark green color palette and a sandblasted finish — as represented by this "106" bent Billiard.

-Truett Smith

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Measurements & Other Details

  • Length: 5.23 in./132.85 mm.
  • Weight: 1.71 oz./48.36 g.
  • Bowl Height: 1.90 in./48.35 mm.
  • Chamber Depth: 1.46 in./36.99 mm.
  • Chamber Diameter: 0.80 in./20.22 mm.
  • Outside Diameter: 1.47 in./37.23 mm.
  • Stem Material: Vulcanite
  • Filter: 9mm
  • Shape: Bent Billiard
  • Finish: Sandblast
  • Material: Briar
  • Country: Other
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