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Ascorti Business KS Rusticated Billiard Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates Ascorti Business KS Rusticated Billiard Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates
Ascorti belongs to a historic lineage in Italian artisan pipe-making. Guiseppe ‘Peppino’ Ascorti was first employed as a pipe-maker in the 1950s, in Carlo Scotti’s Castello workshop in Cantu. There he met Luigi Radice, and in the 1960s the two decided to leave Castello to create their own pipe-making workshop, under the name ‘Caminetto.’ At the end of the 1970s, Guiseppe Ascorti and Luigi Radice left Caminetto and once more decided to start new ventures. Luigi Radice founded the Radice pipe workshop, and Guiseppe’s son Roberto Ascorti, who had also worked in the Caminetto workshop since he was a child, decided to create a workshop under his own name. Roberto was joined not only by his father, but also many of the talented craftsmen who had formerly worked for Caminetto. In 1980, the Ascorti workshop was born.
This is an interesting pipe from Ascorti: shape-wise, it is a very traditional billiard in the French style – in fact, I would go so far as to call it a Maigret – while also being an eminently Italian pipe in its finish and material composition. Like the Maigret, it is an especially muscular billiard, but this one wears Ascorti’s craggy Business rustication, and is paired with an Italian lucite stem.
The condition is near-mint. The pipe came to us as part of our consignment program, from a very careful owner. It is also sold here with its original 6″ / 152.4mm
Bowl Width: 0.91 / 23.11mm
Bowl Depth: 1.65″ / 41.91mm
Weight: 2.5oz / 72g
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