Becker: ***Sandblasted Billiard with Boxwood (Two Clubs) Tobacco Pipe

Though the proportions differ between Federico Becker's straight Billiard renditions, they all tend to fit into the same general style. The angular aesthetic is easily recognized as "Becker" — the implied line of the arrow straight shank and stem terminating to a crisp point at the heel's fore. This offering is of the more slender variety: the rather low-lying bowl perched on the end of an equally trim shank-and-stem combination. It's dressed in a dark, low-profile sandblast, accented by a polished rim and twin pale rings of boxwood the stem base.