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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-DJR5-2M3E-F
Savinelli Oceano Smooth Author 320 KS, Italian Estate, Modern Production
Era undetermined
Dating: UndeterminedItaly10 photographs
Reference example
This pipe is documented here as an example for study — it is a record in the archive, not an item offered for sale. Everything below is what the piece itself, and the evidence around it, will honestly support.
Attribute checklist
Original stem
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Stem replaced or re-cut
No
Faridunhill standing declaration
Rim cleaned (no wood removed)
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Refinished
No
Faridunhill standing declaration
Chamber reamed
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Smoked
Yes
owner stated
Facts, not a grade. We do not score a pipe out of ten: a number would rank a restored pipe above an honest one, and restoration is exactly what this hobby prices down. Every line above is checkable by anyone holding the pipe. Lines marked Faridunhill standing declaration rest on our published, dated statement of shop practice (v1.0, 2026-07-29) — not on an inspection of this individual pipe. It is one document, in public, that you can hold us to.
The entry
This reference example documents a Savinelli Oceano in the house's shape 320 KS, an Author form rendered in a smooth finish and fitted with the maker's 6mm filter system. The Oceano is one of Savinelli's contemporary named finish lines, applied across the firm's standard shape chart, and the present pipe illustrates how such a line pairs an established catalogue shape with a distinct surface treatment. Savinelli is among the most historically significant names in Italian pipe making. Savinelli is also closely linked with filter smoking: the company popularised its own balsa insert system, and many of its shapes, including this one, are bored to accept a 6mm filter, with the pipe equally smokable without one. The 320 is one of Savinelli's best-known shapes, a bulky, hand-filling interpretation of the Author: a rounded, generously proportioned bowl on a short shank, a form associated with comfortable, sedentary smoking. The KS designation marks the King Size execution, the larger rendering of the shape within the Savinelli chart. Dating a Savinelli requires explanation, because the firm has never used a factory date-coding system in the manner of some English houses. Within the archive, the pipe stands as a representative example of Savinelli's contemporary line-making — a classic chart shape, a named finish, and the filter system that has long distinguished the marque.