Ikebana Smooth Calabash (E) Tobacco Pipe

Powerfully shaped, and light weight in hand considering its size, a perfectly robust sized pipe for just about any smoker, this gorgeous, smooth Calabash from Tsuge's Ikebana line of hand made works is seriously something to gape at. I mean, this thing is a drop-dead looker. Here the briar is stained to show us an attractive, even combination of straight and flame grain around the pipe's bowl and along its flanks, as well as a soft, mottled array of bird's eye about the the flat, oval shaped, and beveled rim. The composition of the pipe has an elegant look to it, once certainly influenced by the Danish aesthetic.

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