MORO Elegance Reddish Smooth Straight Apple - Vulcanite Saddle Stem, Fishtail, No Filter, New Old Stock Unsmoked Estate Pipe

This bowl has never held a flame. What marks the briar is not a smoker's wear but a shelf's: a tiny stain and a few faint scratches picked up in storage, nothing more.

Stamped MORO Elegance on the shank, this is a straight apple in reddish smooth briar, fitted with a black vulcanite saddle stem cut with a fishtail slot. The airway runs straight through with no filter chamber.

The apple is one of the older full-bowled shapes in the classic canon, its rounded profile sitting between the straight cylinder of a billiard and the fuller curve of a bulldog. Where a billiard stretches its bowl tall and its shank long, an apple compresses both, giving a shorter, rounder silhouette that reads almost circular from the side. This example follows that geometry closely: a bowl height of 40mm against a bowl width of 35mm, close to a one-to-one ratio that is the apple's signature. The result sits low and compact in the hand, weight held close rather than extended along a long shank, and it displays well upright on a rack, the round bowl catching light evenly from any angle.

The stem is vulcanite, worked to a saddle profile: a stepped shoulder where the material drops from the shank's diameter down to the bit, rather than tapering gradually along its length. A saddle stem gives a firmer bite platform and a more angular line at the shank join than a tapered stem does. The bit itself is cut fishtail - the slot widens into two lobes at the tip instead of a single round opening. A fishtail bit spreads the draw across a broader opening than a round drilling of the same bore, which many smokers feel eases the pull without changing the smoke's temperature. This example carries no filter chamber; the bore runs straight from tenon to bit, the simpler and more direct configuration, and the one most associated with older stem-cutting before filter systems became common.

The briar is stained a reddish tone over a smooth, unrusticated surface. Grain figure is best judged from the photographs of this example.

THE MARKS
- MORO Elegance, stamped on the shank

Condition: New old stock, unsmoked. No cake in the chamber; bare briar throughout the bowl. A tiny stain and faint scratches from storage are present on the briar surface.

THE MEASUREMENTS
Length 142mm (5.7") - bowl height 40mm (1.6") - bowl width 35mm (1.4") - bowl depth 35mm (1.4") - chamber diameter 20mm (0.8") - weight 1.0 oz

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SKU: 032