**DISCONTINUED** Ropp Vintage Horn Pipe Sandblast 32s Dublin Briar Pipe ROP-067

• Overall Length: 120mm
• Overall Height: 46mm
• Bowl Height: 46mm
• Bowl Diameter: 33mm
• Bore: 18mm
• Weight: 33g
• Filter: Unfiltered
• Gift Boxed
• Aged "Vintage" Briar
• Real Horn Stem
• Cloth pipe bag included

The 32s is a neat little straight Dublin from Ropp — slim-waisted and well-proportioned, with that classic French silhouette you’d spot in a Parisian café back when hats and overcoats were still the done thing. It’s part of their Vintage Horn line, a series that pays homage to the brand’s late 19th-century roots when Charles Ropp first set up shop crafting cherrywood pipes with horn stems in the Jura mountains. Though the name faded for a time, it’s been respectfully revived in Saint-Claude — that old pipe-making town nestled in the French Alps — where original tools, stamping jigs, and carving methods have been brought back into use with quiet reverence.

This one’s cut from decent briar and given a crisp sandblasted finish, which shows off the natural grain without any unnecessary gloss or fuss. It’s dark and slightly pitted, almost like old charcoal, and rests comfortably in the hand without slipping about. The bowl flares out gently towards the rim — a true Dublin — offering enough room for a short, contemplative smoke or a longer session with something like a shag cut or a rubbed-out flake.

But it’s the stem that does all the talking here — not vulcanite, not acrylic, but genuine polished horn, just as it would’ve been over a century ago. The colours shift subtly, with blonde, amber and honeyed tones depending on the light. Each stem’s different, of course, and will darken with age and oil from the fingers, which to my mind is part of the appeal.

No filter in this one. Just an open draw and a bit of tradition, kept alive through use rather than display. The sort of pipe you grow into over time, without even meaning to.