Savinelli Trevi Smooth Author 320 KS (6mm), Late 20th–Early 21st Century

This reference example is a Savinelli Trevi in the house's Author shape, catalogued as 320 KS and finished smooth, fitted for the 6mm filter system that has become one of the firm's signatures. The Author is a classically full-bodied form: a rounded, generously proportioned bowl set on a stout shank, a shape long associated with contemplative, unhurried smoking and rendered here in Savinelli's king-size (KS) proportion, indicated by the suffix on the shape number. Savinelli occupies a central place in Italian pipe history. The 320 is among the best-recognised entries on that chart, frequently cited as the firm's definitive Author. The Trevi designation identifies one of Savinelli's named finish lines, and the 6mm fitting reflects the maker's characteristic filter arrangement, designed to accept the small balsa inserts the company popularised, while remaining smokable without a filter in place. Dating a Savinelli of this type rests on general rather than precise evidence, since the firm does not employ a factory date-coding system on its standard production. On that basis the honest conclusion is a bracket spanning the late twentieth to early twenty-first century, with a narrower attribution left undetermined. The example stands in the archive as a representative document of Savinelli's numbered shape system and of the Author form in Italian factory pipemaking.