Castello: 'Castello' Billiard (KKKK) Tobacco Pipe
Product Number: 002-386-5802
Italian workshop Castello has a rich history that stretches back to 1947 with its founding by Carlo Scotti, being established as one of the first Italian brands to offer high-quality handmade pipes to the general public. In the 1960s, following the addition of Luigi Radice and Peppino Ascorti to their team of carvers, Castello's pipes began to take on a form that was quite different from the Anglo-French classics that they and others had been producing. The Italian neoclassical style which they had begun to develop led not only to a shaping renaissance within Italy, but the production of a number of now iconic profiles. This Billiard is a fine example of the talents of Castello's carvers, its muscular bowl housing a fairly capacious chamber atop a jutting, flattened heel that enables it to sit sturdily upright. The bowl is paired to a tapering shank-and-stem combination which lends the aft side of this pipe a sleek character and places further emphasis on the bowl. A hearty and handsome pipe, its stummel is here dressed in the smoky, smooth stain of the workshop's eponymous finish, the stummel here showcases a wealth of handsome grain.
-John McElheny







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- Length: 5.99 in./152.15 mm.
- Weight: 1.98 oz./56.25 g.
- Bowl Height: 2.02 in./51.31 mm.
- Chamber Depth: 1.67 in./42.42 mm.
- Chamber Diameter: 0.84 in./21.34 mm.
- Outside Diameter: 1.60 in./40.64 mm.
- Stem Material: Acrylic
- Filter: None
- Shape: Billiard
- Finish: Smooth
- Material: Briar
- Country: Italy