Castello: Perla Nera Bent Billiard (K) Tobacco Pipe

Hearty and bold, this bent Billiard from Castello presents a thick-walled, robust bowl that's comfortable in hand and deep of chamber, its sweeping heel yielding to a far more slender S-curve in back. Rendered in the dramatized proportions of Italian neoclassic style, this piece offers the flowing curves and lines that are inherent in the Italian workshop's pipes, with the downturn of the stem promoting a comfortable smoking posture. It's wearing the dressy Perla Nera smooth finish, covering the stummel in a glossy ebony stain, with a trim band of lightly stained briar at the shank end lending handsome contrast.