I didn't have a Christmas pipe so I have been looking around. I checked out a Peterson Christmas Zulu which really looked great but some finishing issues made me pass because there was a small section where the red wasn't applied fully and you could see a rag wipe in it's place. Most of the other pipes offered up as Christmas pipes weren't doing it for me so I was looking around at pipes that struck the right chord in my mind. I checked out a Brebbia Oom Paul which screams Christmas but unfortunately the stem was crooked to the right and that really bugged me. Then I stumbled upon this Eltang with a deep red finish and I thought it would make a perfect Christmas pipe.