Rattrays - Pipe of the Year 2020 - Light - 9mm Filter Pipe

Pipe Number 48/300

Now let us talk about this thick walled Rhodesian beauty. It features a beautiful spigot style application and the smooth surfaces are finished in matted colours to emphasise the high quality of the woods. Rattray's pipe of the year is available in 6 styles, each one limited to only 50 pieces. Each pipe is numbered. 

2020 is the Chinese year of the rat.In China this rodent is highly respected. It is a very social animal but also assertive, active, fast and agile. The rat is the first animal in the Chinese sign of the zodiac and thus is a symbol for new beginnings. 

This series is the third pipe of the year decorated with a Chinese sign of the zodiac. The design was made by Rattray's former student assistant Hyun HoJe, who by now has a diploma in industrial design. She interpreted the animals in a celtic fashion. 

Charles Rattray is still a well-known name in the pipe smoking world, his tobaccos are highly rated by connoisseur smokers. Located in Perth the Rattrays tobacconist not only sold tobaccos, but like most tobacconists blended on site too. His skills with tobacco eventually saw the shop become a blending house in its own right. While Charles never produced his own pipes, he worked closely with English pipe makers for his own shop pipes. In more recent years the Perth factory has now closed and the brand was saved by German blending master Kohlhouse & Kopp.

O Kopp has been the driving force behind the Rattrays pipes, using a number of traditional makers in St Claude (Chacom & Butz Choquin) and also by factories in Italy. The use of various makers allows the collection to have a very wide range of shapes, made using mass production methods dating back over 100 years. Not afraid to go against the flow, the collection contains shapes which have become desirable and very rarely produced. 

Pipe Details

Pipe Material : Meerschaum
Shape : Rhodesian
Finish : Smooth
Colour : Light
Mouthpiece : (Fishtail)
Filter : 9mm

Dimensions

Pipe Length : 145mm
Pipe Height : 50 mm
Pipe Width : 47 mm
Chamber Width : 22 mm 

Pipe Weight : 57 grams