Ser Jacopo: Smooth Calabash (L) (A) Tobacco Pipe

Since its founding in 1982, Ser Jacopo has become one of the most recognizable and iconic pipe brands in all of Italy. Under the watchful stewardship of founder Giancarlo Guidi, the workshop developed a style that has since come to define the Pesaro shaping aesthetic. Each Ser Jacopo pipe is imbued with a whimsical sense of character that reflects the brand's creativity and playful spirit. Though not crafted from traditional gourd, this compact Calabash from Ser Jacopo possesses the domed cap and sweeping form often associated with the shape, but in demure, chubby proportions, coming in at slightly under five inches in length. Though travel-friendly in size, this piece still boasts quite a generous chamber capacity, making it an ideal piece for on-the-go smoking or casual enjoyment. Shape-wise, the piece offers hearty proportions, with a robust bowl matched by its firm heel and thick, rounded shank. The piece wears a dark, inky, smooth finish that reveals handsome grain throughout the stummel, with wisps of flickering flame grain rising around the walls of the bowl. The piece is topped off by a tapered stem of jet-black acrylic that arcs gently for a relaxed smoking posture.