Castello: Old Antiquari Billiard (KK) Tobacco Pipe

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. While Castello presents Billiards in a variety of sizes, styles, and dimensions, they are almost always recognizable as the work of the Cantù workshop due to their muscular proportions and expert finishing techniques. Such is the case with this offering — displaying a tall, plump bowl up front and a comparatively trim shank and stem out back. Such a combination draws attention to the bowl and rightfully so as it's covered in the workshop's Old Antiquari sandblast. Rippling ring grain emanates from the rounded heel and climbs all the way up the bowl.