Briarwood Wide Bowl Smoking Pipe with Purpleheart Inlayed Cap insta17 and after being in storage

and after being in storage for over half a century

a black wood with distinctive brown grain

The cap is inlayed with Wenge

as most olive wood used for pipes is sourced from pruned branches or mature trees that are no longer producing fruit

Briarwood Wide Bowl Smoking Pipe with Purpleheart Inlayed Cap insta17 and after being in storageThis pipe, part of the Adopt Me collection, is made from vintage Italian Briarwood. The wood was originally harvested in the 1960s, and after being in storage for over half a century, the raw wood made its way to the United States and eventually in to the hands of our artisans. The cap is inlayed with Peltogyne, commonly known as purpleheart, violet wood, or amaranth and is a genus of 23 species native to Mexico, Central and South America The bowl is