Description
With its origins in an 1858 collaboration between Jean-Baptiste Choquin and Gustave Butz, Butz-Choquin ultimately become one of the premier smoking pipe companies in 20th century France. The brand is known both for its stylish variations on traditional English-French shapes and for its exploration of atypical and elaborate finishes. The brand is also known for its collaborations with celebrated French pipe-makers, such as Paul Lanier and Alain Albuisson, who made some of Butz-Choquin’s highest-grade pipes for the company.
This is an interesting looking Butz Choquin isn’t it? And the name, that’s interesting too, right? Let’s see if I can provide some information that will shed some light on this one. Chatelaine (or “Châtelaine“) is an old French word. Roughly speaking, “Châtelain” refers to a person who is in charge of a castle, and therefore to everyone living in the surrounding territory. “Châtelaine” is simply the feminine form of the word. So, there is a castle theme to this pipe. And that’s not difficult to see. It is a freehand, but one carved in a way that resembles a medieval European fortress more than anything else.
Gently Smoked -Butz-Choquin Camargue Tobacco Pipe
Smooth Chestnut finish with flame and birds-eye grain and natural imperfections
Thin line of cake in the bowl
Black Ebonite Stem with no signs of chatter
Original extended shank with pearlized champaign tones, ” BC” can be seen in the black inlay in the extended shank.
Slight charring can be seen around the crown of the bowl
This Gently Smoked Butz-Choquin Camargue comes to you Clean, Sanitized, and will be ready for you to smoke and enjoy.
Weight: 1.1 oz. / 34 grams
Bowl Height: 1-5/16″
Tobacco Chamber Diameter: 13/16″
Length: 6-1/8″
Mouthpiece: Ebonite
Nomenclature: Butz-Choquin (in script) Camargue ST CLAUDE (arched) FRANCE 1683
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