Smooth Elephants Foot with Horn (Gold) Tobacco Pipe

This is of the slimmer sort, and in fact comes closest to the aforementioned sitter in terms of trimness of profile - albeit with much more in the way of curving lines to the flanks and soft roundness to the forward face. The two also share a close overall height, though in this case a significant amount of that is placed in the rising flick of the rims forward edge, as opposed to the other's extension at the heel.

While the sitter was a Diamond-grade (and had the grain to back it up), and this one is a "mere" Gold, personally I'd give the nod to this design, as a design; the sense of flow and counter-flow, natural taper and arrangement of mass, is just ideal to my eye.

- Eric N. Squires