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| Photos courtesy of the Sons of the Two Sicilies Smoking Pipe Club |
For over one hundred and fifty years, the Italian Peninsula has been an important hub for the manufacture of tobacco pipes. From the finest artisans crafting each piece by hand, to some of the world’s best known industrial manufacturers - Italy remains a center for pipe making in the world. Cementing her place in the pipe smoking world, Italy is also one of the foremost producers of briar root - the extremely hard and heat-resistant, wood most favored in the production of smoking pipes.
But while many of the most well known names in pipe making come from the famed centers of production in northern Italy, the incredible artists and artisans creating smoking pipes in the territories of southern Italy and Sicily - the lands that once constituted the ancient Kingdom of the Two Sicilies - are sometimes difficult to identify, and far-too-often completely overlooked.
We’ve set out to catalogue, collect, and circulate the fine works being crafted in the Two Sicilies today, so that pipe smokers, collectors, and connoisseurs from around the world - and those of us with roots in this ancient land - can share in the excellence that is the Southern Italian pipe making tradition.
The Sons of the Two Sicilies Smoking Pipe Club can be found on Facebook and Instagram
