Savinelli Estella 115 KS Rustic Pot

This reference example documents a Savinelli Estella in the maker's shape 115 KS, a rusticated pot from the Italian estate tradition. The pot is one of pipemaking's fundamental forms: a comparatively short, wide bowl with walls of generous thickness and a broad, flat rim, favoured by smokers who value a cool burn and an open view of the tobacco chamber. In Savinelli's numbering system the KS suffix denotes King Size, indicating a scaled-up rendering of the standard shape, while the rustic treatment gives the a deliberately carved, textured surface that contrasts with the firm's smooth and sandblasted finishes. Savinelli occupies a central place in Italian pipe history. Factory production under the family name was established in the mid-twentieth century, and the firm's catalogue lines — organised by finish name and a shared library of shape numbers — became one of the most widely distributed expressions of Italian work. The Estella belongs to this family of named finish lines, each applying a distinct surface treatment to the common shape chart, with the 115 pot appearing across many of them. Dating a Savinelli of this kind proceeds by inference rather than by code. Unlike certain English houses, Savinelli did not employ a systematic factory date-stamping practice on its standard lines, so an individual pipe is bracketed by the production span of its line and the style of its nomenclature.