Autograph Smooth Cherrywood (8) (6mm) Tobacco Pipe

Achille Savinelli set out to break the Italian government's monopoly on tobacco when he opened his own smoke shop in Milan in 1876. Though clay and meerschaum ruled the pipe market in those days, Achille had faith that the briar pipes he designed and had manufactured in Varese would make a breakthrough, and he was right. Production of Savinelli pipes continues to this day, with its Autograph line representing the company's finest products. The line's incredibly high standards, including specially-selected briar, limit the number of Autographs Savinelli can make each year. Savinelli grades its best Autographs on a descending scale of 000, 00, and 0, followed by 8, 6, 5, 4, and 3.

This 8-graded Cherrywood wears some highly attractive flame grain about the sitting bowl, which is topped with short, undulating plateau that gives the piece a great sense of naturalism. The bowl is highly conical, tapering at both the aft and fore as it reaches down to the flat heel and backed by a lightly upturned shank of moderate muscle. The entire stummel is finished smoothly and stained a warm, bright auburn hue, then backed with a translucent, tapered stem of amber-colored acrylic that bends gently on its way to the bit. Handsome in coloring and superb in profile, this a great rendition of the classic Cherrywood that Savinelli's artisans took even greater care to make one-of-a-kind.