Savinelli Dante 700th Anniversary Rusticated Dark Brown 6mm Fishtail Pipe 254/700 (SAV861)

The Savinelli brand of pipes was first introduced by its original creator, Achille Savinelli Sr. In 1876, he opened a store in the heart of the Italian city, Milan, located near the famous Piazza Duomo.

Fourteen years later - Achille Savinelli's son, Carlo, took over and ran the store for over 50 years - developing very good relations with his clients. In 1918, Achille Junior was born. As a young man, Achille began his specialization in pipe making in the small workshop in the back of the store where he would work on designing and inventing the pipes. It was in that workshop that the first genuine Savinelli pipe came to light.

When Achille Jr came back from the war, he decided to leave the father’s shop, he started to produce his own pipes and in 1948 he opened the Savinelli factory and workshop. The pipes produced there rapidly began gaining prestige in markets all over the world with their quality.

Savinelli Dante 700th Anniversary Briar Pipe: Father of the Italian language, political theorist and philosopher, Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 and died in September 1321 at the age of 56 in Ravenna, where he lived in exile. In addition to the Divine Comedy, which is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature and was written in "vulgar" Italian language to be comprehensible to everyone, he wrote other works such as the Convivio, De Monarchia and De Vulgari Eloquentia. To celebrate the anniversary of his death of 700 years ago, Savinelli have produced 700 individually numbered pipes. Each made from the finest briar in a half-bent Brandy shaping which has been sandblasted and given a rich dark brown stain. Then it is finished with a black acrylic stem embellished with a silver Dante figure at the top of the shank.

Savinelli pipes are 100% Made in Italy with passion, elegance, and attention to every detail.

Presented in a Savinelli pouch and box.

THIS IS PIPE 114/700.

This pipe has been individually photographed, so that the pipe you see in the picture is the pipe you will receive.