Your Best Vintage Savinellis?

[garageboy]

I always liked Savinelli as a brand (Italian Dunhill?), and flipping through a 1970s catalog made me want to search for a nice older (pre 6mm) Savinelli pipes -
So I ended up picking a Giubileo D'Oro (which has okay cross grain) and a Punto Oro 4 digit billiard (which has a tiny fill) - so I'm off to get "nicer" high tier Savinellis - I had this beautiful Autograph 8 that was unfortunately starting to burn through - but had the nicest flame grain pipe of any I've owned (sold it off).
I know the pipes that made the Oro grades varied widely (and man I've also seen some gnarly fills on the Extras and Milano Deluxes) - but I know nice ones exist

What are your favorites?

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

I reckon I will not buy any filtered Savinellis no more in the future,as of lately ,I sold all my Savis which took 6mm balsa filters

 

[dmcmtk]

I like the old Capri finish pipes.

 

[garageboy]

Were vintage Punto Oros in smooth ever "fill free"?

 

[alaskanpiper]

I like the old Capri finish pipes

A very nice looking pipe. I love the simplicity. These days there are so many pipes accented with acrylic rings, sterling silver, different wood bands, mammoth teeth (not even kidding), etc. While they are cool, I still always love the look of wood and stem and that's it. If I had to pick, I'd probably give up all the rest for that classic simplicity.

 

[donjgiles]

Were vintage Punto Oros in smooth ever "fill free"?

I don't think I personally, have ever seen a fill on Punto Oro.
Don

 

[georged]

http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/savinelli-giubileo-doro-yacht-shape-904ks
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/savinelli-giubileo-doro-shape-207-straight-apple
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/savinelli-giubileo-doro-310ks-cherrywood
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/savinelli-guibileo-doro-smooth-515ks
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/savinelli-giubileo-doro-smooth-515ks-2

 

[alaskanpiper]

sweet pipes george. Especially like the 904 and the Apple. Love me a good apple/prince.
thanks for the video on the dunhill redbark the other day too, it was very informative.

 

[disinformatique]

Lord of the Savinellis. One Savinelli to rule them all.

Cheers,

Chris :puffpipe:

 

[Chasing Embers]

Any line that produced a 904 or 9004 is okay by me.

 

[donjgiles]

Lord of the Savinellis

You own that?

It is indeed the King! That is the one 402 (4002) missing from my collection.

I am green with envy.
Don

 

[disinformatique]

You own that?

It is indeed the King! That is the one 402 (4002) missing from my collection.

I am green with envy. []

Yes Sir, not only it's a 4002 but also a Punto Oro Corallo grade. I was lucky enough to buy it, I think it was October of 2017. Couldn't believe the owner sold it at such a low price. This pipe was featured in SPC's petite pipe blog and is rumoured a higher management SPC executive owned it before they put it up for sale.

Blog Link - https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/sykes-and-shanes-passion-for-petite-pipes
Cheers,

Chris :puffpipe:

 

[donjgiles]

That may be the only example in existence.
Well done!
My collection of common 402s...

Don

 

[disinformatique]

My collection of common 402s...

Nothing common about those pipe Don. They are all special !! Love the virgin and sandblast finish !!
Cheers,

Chris :puffpipe:

 

[garageboy]

Wow - I need to start looking harder - I know Savinelli can make some nice stuff, but everytime I pick one up off ebay, I go "oh, that's why that Giubileo D'oro/Punto Oro went for so little"

 

[workman]

What's the difference between 4 and 3 digit Savinelli shapes? I have a 9614. Would that be a vintage pipe?

 

[donjgiles]

I think Savinelli went from 4 digit numbers to 3 digit numbers in the 1970's.

The exceptions are Non Pareil and Dry System pipes
Don

 

[ssjones]

Two Giubileo D'Oro's,both pre-1984 pipes with no filter, vulcanite stems.
904KS

KS625

 

[redglow]

Awesome pipes. I don't have anything vintage. But, I have two Savs that are my favorite pipes.
They look great and they smoke well.

 

[p40warhawk]

Some of my favorite Pipes are my Savinelli's! I have a few Bruna's that I really like and for a long trip, that 606 EX Hercules is nice to have... Also, I like their 614's, easy to clench.