Gently Smoked – Ashton 1980’s Pebble Grain X Barrel Briar Pipe (22)

Description

Gently Smoked – Ashton 1980’s Pebble Grain X Barrel Briar Pipe (22) Bill Taylor Era

Acrylic black mouthpiece with no signs chatter on this original stem with the Ashton Dot on the top the stem

Thin line of cake in the bowl

Light Charring on the crown 

This Gently Smoked Ashton comes to you Clean, Sanitized, and will be ready for you to smoke and enjoy. 

Weight: 1.1 oz. / 32 grams

Bowl Height:  1-9/16″

Tobacco Chamber Diameter:  11/16″

Length:  5-1/4″

Mouthpiece:  acrylic

Nomenclature:  Ashton  Pebble Grain X Made in England 22

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INFORMATION:

Ashton is an English pipe brand created by William Ashton Taylor, a former Dunhill pipe-maker who left Dunhill in the 1980s to make pipes under his own name. Along with other pipe-makers such as Ken Barnes and Barry Jones of James Upshall and Les Wood of Ferndown, Ashton emerged as part of a new wave of high end, hand made British pipes in the late 20th century.

If we had to rank the greatest sandblasts in the history of pipes, whose pipes would we choose? For the traditionalist, there’s the family era Barling’s Make, patent era Dunhills, and mid-century Charatan; for those more inclined to the contemporary, there’s J.T. Cooke, Larry Roush, and a whole host of other, highly talented Americans. But it would be difficult to give a “top ten”—or even a “top five”—without including Ashton. More specifically, we would be remiss if we didn’t include William Taylor, Ashton’s founder and director between 1983 and 2009, when he unexpectedly passed. That’s not to say that Jimmy Craig, Bill’s successor, doesn’t make great pipes, but Bill’s sandblasting was a sight to behold.