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That Jeantet is a fine looking panel, and it must have some history behind it with the real horn stem. :clap:
That Jeantet is a fine looking panel, and it must have some history behind it with the real horn stem. :clap:
Panel Pipes, What Do You Think?
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"That Jeantet is a fine looking panel, and it must have some history behind it with the real horn stem."
Yes, I was thinking about what Dunhill had to do during WWII. It's hard to find anything beyond the basic information regarding Jeantet. Pipe is also marked, 8-AH.27. I have no idea what it means.
Yes, I was thinking about what Dunhill had to do during WWII. It's hard to find anything beyond the basic information regarding Jeantet. Pipe is also marked, 8-AH.27. I have no idea what it means.
I have never been drawn to panel pipes but in have to admit lately I find myself looking at then more and more. At some point I will likely pull the trigger on one.
Different smokes for different folks. I don't own any panels but would not return a gifted one if wifey bought one for me. :D
I like panels if it looks as if the pipe was designed with that in mind. I don't like the ones where it looks like someone took a traditional shape and flattened a few sides, like a Billiard with a few flats sides, etc...
After I posted this, I went looking at panels, just to see what's out there. I think Dunhill has more panels
as a percent of their offerings than any other pipe maker. Others seem to offer them as an unusual shape.
But with Dunhill, it is one of their old standards. I don't shop for Dunhills even as estate pipes or on ebay,
but if I encountered one at a surprisingly low price at a yard sale or antique store, I'd feel like I'd won a lottery.
It's a big Dunhill "thing." foggymountain has nine of them! That's some nice smoking.
as a percent of their offerings than any other pipe maker. Others seem to offer them as an unusual shape.
But with Dunhill, it is one of their old standards. I don't shop for Dunhills even as estate pipes or on ebay,
but if I encountered one at a surprisingly low price at a yard sale or antique store, I'd feel like I'd won a lottery.
It's a big Dunhill "thing." foggymountain has nine of them! That's some nice smoking.
I recently got a nice paneled billiard saddle bit Bruyere Dunhill on Ebay (maybe it was the one Buster was bidding on). My girlfriend loves it and I get extra attention when I smoke it. Uh, so yeah, I like em.
I'm not a fan. Never had one, and I don't have any intention of ever owning one.
OTOH, I love square-shanked pipes, which seem like they must be related somehow to panel pipes. Maybe second cousins. But I've loved the square-shank look ever since I read Carl Weber's Pleasures of Pipe Smoking which has a beautiful photo of one on the cover.
Bob
OTOH, I love square-shanked pipes, which seem like they must be related somehow to panel pipes. Maybe second cousins. But I've loved the square-shank look ever since I read Carl Weber's Pleasures of Pipe Smoking which has a beautiful photo of one on the cover.
Bob
Panels intrigue me, but I've never owned one. I came close to pulling the trigger on a Savinelli "Octavia" paneled Dublin once, but for some reason I talked myself out of it.
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