Vauen: Topas Sandblasted (551) (9mm) Tobacco Pipe

This "551" bent Apple from Vauen, one of Germany's oldest and most prestigious pipe manufacturers, features a plump, rounded bowl encompassed by crisp panels. The facets add a sense of firm-lined structure to the composition, while the shank-and-stem arrangements offers a touch of fluidity to the pipe in profile. A rugged, earthy sandblast dresses the stummel and brings vivid definition to the briar. Metallic accents along the stem base and shank face really pop against the shadowy complexion of the pipe.