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England, 1949 A lightweight, lightly to moderately smoked patent period Dunhill Grade A pipe (Bruyere) from 1949, featuring a canonical pot shape and patented Dunhill inner tube. It seems that there is nothing to complain about the pipe – the … Continued
England, 1935-52 This Dunhill pipe came to us with the noticeably chewed mouthpiece and very faint nomenclature, and of course it was hardly possible to make it clearer, the challenge was to save at least a few more or less … Continued
England, 1950s Normally the dating of Dunhill pipes doesn’t cause complications. In this particular case we may say for sure it’s one of the late patent period Dunhill Shell samples made in 1950, so it’s already more than 70 years … Continued
England, 1940 No staining just a natural finish! This is an exciting indeed example of the good old fashioned English pipe carving art. The pipe was made in 1940, already on the beginning of the Wold War II, but it … Continued
England, 1949 The sandblast finish is considered to be invented by Dunhill, at least this fact was confirmed with patents of 1917 – in Great Britain and 1920 – in the USA. From the very beginning Algerian briar was used … Continued
England, 1933 In the beginning Dunhill created Bruyere. And several years (1910-1917) it was the single brand made by the company of a firm and dense Calabrian briar. And though pre WWII “bruyeres” were marked just by a letter “A” … Continued
England It would be very helpful at least in the XXI century to have implemented a modern and comprehensive system for the smoking pipes dating and accounting. Just imagine: a pipe has a chip or a bar code, you take … Continued
