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Smooth brown Butz Choquin Saga pipe with black ebonite mouthpiece, semi-curved free form model. Saga rating. It has a striking visual impact thanks to its original, sinuous lines, which make it very elegant. The pipe is medium in size and stands out for its large bowl and excellent smokeability in any situation. Its lightness makes it ideal for smoking while walking or sitting comfortably in an armchair. This pipe has a high bowl, which guarantees a consistently fresh smoke. It is also very practical as it can be placed down without falling over thanks to its flat base. The pipe has a beautiful English cut flame with a fine partridge eye over most of the bowl, giving it a superior class. A pipe of substance that is a pleasure to hold, even when unlit. A stunning piece which, although original, enchants with its perfect and refined measurements, which are never a given on a free form pipe. Butz Choquin is one of the oldest and most famous French pipe companies, still in full operation today. Production takes place in Saint Claude and consists mainly of industrial pipes. This one was handmade by its skilled craftsmen with extra briar at the end of the 1960s. The pipe has been used and smoked very well and not too much, mainly with natural tobaccos or English mixtures. Rating 9 out of 10. The pipe has neither its original bag nor box.
Jean-Baptiste Choquin of Metz began his career as a tobacconist. This business was so successful that he ended up with several employees. Among them was a certain Gustave Butz, who was his first worker and became his son-in-law by marrying Choquin's daughter, Marie, in 1858. In 1858, Jean-Baptiste Choquin, with the collaboration of Gustave Butz, created the Choquin pipe. It was a curved pipe with a flat-bottomed bowl and finished with an albatross bone mouthpiece, secured with a silver band. In 1858, Gustave Butz built a factory in Metz to manufacture the Choquin pipe. Production continued until 1951, when the brand was bought by the Berrod-Regad company, which decided to move the headquarters to Saint-Claude, then also known as 'the world capital of briar pipes'. In just a few years, the brand's collection grew from ten to seventy series. 135 years after its foundation, the Butz Choquin pipe is still well known not only in France but throughout the world. In 2002, the Berrod family, wishing to preserve pipe production in Saint-Claude, sold the company to Fabien Guichon, a native of the area, who will continue to develop the brand throughout the 21st century.
The pipes we sell second-hand are only from the best and most prestigious brands and are rigorously selected by me from private collections. The pipes in question must have been well treated and smoked, generally smoked little and sanitised before being put up for sale. In fact, once selected, they are disinfected and the interior sterilised, the mouthpiece is sanded and the entire pipe polished, both the bowl and the mouthpiece. Casaropipe guarantees that at this point they are ready to continue to give satisfaction to a new enthusiast.
The pipe for sale is exactly as shown in the photos. Once sold, as it is handmade and therefore unique, the pipe will be removed from the website. The actual colour of the pipe may vary slightly from the photo as each monitor has its own colour tone. The dimensions have been measured accurately but may vary by a millimetre, either more or less.