Take a look at this pipe and reflect on any other pipe you may have seen with such clean wood. This pipe has been left near natural in color, with every flaw visible…except there is no flaw to see. (There is a lot of subtle straight grain that will pop as the pipe is smoked and color contrasts emerge.) Further, the chamber is uncoated. Paolo rarely ever left his chambers uncoated and I had a conversation with him about that…strongly preferring uncoated bowls in order that my tobacco would be the sole influence. Paolo had a very logical answer to that: if he coated some chambers, and left other uncoated, customers would only want the uncoated bowls, suspecting some pit or flaw in the chamber of the coated pipes. Thus, he coated all his pipes…or nearly all of them. I bet that this pipe was so clean, he didn’t have the heart to cover it up. It’s a Grp. 5 in size, with a brindle stem to complement the light briar. As it’s unsmoked, the condition is new.
5.75” long, bowl 2” tall. Weight: 1.5 oz., 44 grams.