Sandblasted Bent Tomato with Boxwood Tobacco Pipe

Something of a hybrid between squat Tomato and supple bent Egg, this Klein design combines the broad and thick-walled proportions of the former with the smooth, graceful style and soft curvaceousness of the latter. When gripped at a bit of an underhand angle, it's more natural than you might at first expect, but where the shaping really shines is when it's full, broad underside is cradled gently in palm. Oh, and sitting, too - despite nearly every line on this thing being a smooth, graceful curve, it rests steadily and readily, and with quite a lovely poise.

- Eric N. Squires