Sandblasted Morta Billiard Tobacco Pipe

Trim, straight, and sharp, this is the most direct sort of Becker designs; shank and bowl proportions that would fit right in with traditional Italian-neoclassical shapes, no particularly obvious alteration of, say, the angle of the bowl or the length of the transition, and yet altogether bearing lines that are anything but old-fashioned. It's the best of both worlds, really. You get the intuitive and practical shape of a classic smoking instrument, with the aesthetics of a design that has undergone a modern process of evolution, where refining the differences made was as important as making it different in the first place.

- Eric N. Squires