Let's Discuss Birth Year Pipes. Photos Appreciated.

[scloyd]

Birth year 1946 Dunhill. Took several years searching before I found this one.

That's a beauty.

 

[tnfan]

That's a beauty.

Thank you!

 

[Casual]

The birth year pipe thing couldn't have been more perfect to sell estate Dunhills than if it was made up whole cloth by used pipe dealers. :D

That said, I still look on occasion.

 

[jojoc]

For the younger among us, Castello is also an option for a pipe with a date code stamp. If I remember correctly they started stamping the date code in the mid-1980s.

 

[cshubhra]

I may do a Dunhill collection marking the key milestones in my life (Or May not, I am debating whether it makes sense). However here is a pic of the two commemorative Dunhill

1. Dunhill Shell 1976 - The year I first had consciousness
2. Dunhill Tanshell 1977 - Birth year

 

[ormazd]

I have birth year Dunhills for myself, my wife, my eldest daughter, and our wedding.

 

[scloyd]

Brigham pipes are notoriously difficult to date to a specific year, but 'early 80s' is close enough to 1981 for me.

Mike,
Smoking Pipes has a 1981 Dunhill.


English Estates Dunhill Microphone (2) (1981) (Unsmoked) | Buy English Estates Tobacco Pipes at Smokingpipes - https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/england/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=270164

 

[mikethompson]

Mike,
Smoking Pipes has a 1981 Dunhill.

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English Estates Dunhill Microphone (2) (1981) (Unsmoked) | Buy English Estates Tobacco Pipes at Smokingpipes - https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/england/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=270164

That's been for sale for a very long time. It's not quite my ... Everything? But at $4k USD I really don't think so!

 

[Casual]

That's been for sale for a very long time. It's not quite my ... Everything? But at $4k USD I really don't think so!

It makes the Weibe Radiator look subtle and elegant by comparison.

 

[ssjones]

I picked up this 1961 120 Shell a few years ago, a favorite shape. It gets smoked sparingly, and always on my birthday.

 

[jttnk]

Someday a 1970, pipe that I like will be hunted.

 

[voorhees]

My 1971 Shell 6475 F/T. I was lucky a friend came upon a collection with this pipe included. I didn’t buy it right away due to not being for sale.
it was in rough condition, smoked heavily and had lots of cake and tooth marks.
He did an impressive clean up.

 

[jaytex1969]

This '69 Dunhill shape 90 Shell followed me home from site sponsor Mkelaw's website. It's a small, group 2 size.

 

[mso489]

I've heard it argued that a year stamp would affect the value of pipes not sold during that year, make them look like old inventory. To the contrary, in a field where age is generally looked as an attribute, I think that prejudice could quickly be educated out of the consumer base. An older pipe, unsmoked, in prime shape, can only be said to have more aged briar and therefore be more valuable, or at the very least as valuable. I'd love to have a birth year Savinelli, Genod, BC, etc. But I'd be dubious without a stamp to prove it. I'd figure someone was just pulling my chain. And since they've never been stamped, I'd know a year stamp or a code was a clever addition. Hey, I happen to have a stamped birth year pipe; just let me go in the back for a minute. No Dunhill, no birth year, no thanks. I am glad to know Castello has gotten aboard for younger people.

 

[timt]

1966 Dunhill billiard, found on eBay.

 

[Humblepipe]

My 1971 Shell 6475 F/T. I was lucky a friend came upon a collection with this pipe included. I didn’t buy it right away due to not being for sale.
it was in rough condition, smoked heavily and had lots of cake and tooth marks.View attachment 8745
He did an impressive clean up.

I'd like this in a 1964, if it exists.

 

[BROBS]

1982 Peterson Supreme System 20s

the lighter had bad solder and got returned.
Only experience with a Kiribi I won’t get another.

 

[olkofri]

Don't think I'll ever own one. Can't see how I could find a '77 utterly unsmoked. ☹

 

[BROBS]

I found a 1968 Dunhill Tanshell panel unsmoked.

 

[olkofri]

I found a 1968 Dunhill Tanshell panel unsmoked.

There's hope then! Where was that? eBay? Local antique market?