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  1. guylesss

    Most Expensive Pipes Sold Ever

    My own guess would be the LC shaped briar made for Adolf Hitler from a splinter of the True Cross that came to be so prized by Audrey Hepburn-- who often smoked it whenever she'd have tea with Andy Warhol and Kurt Cobain (to whom she left it in her will). Which is to say quite often a very big...
  2. guylesss

    Hello from New York

    Welcome from the waterfront of Williamsburg.
  3. guylesss

    Showoff Your Dunhill Pipes Here!

    The early patent and the small underlined 6 date code means you can be confident about the 1926 date (as per John Loring's invaluable The Dunhill Briar Pipe/The Patent Years and After). To go a bit further down the relevant rabbit holes, yours is a Bruyère finish (as opposed to a "Dead Root...
  4. guylesss

    Showoff Your Dunhill Pipes Here!

    Well done! And congratulations. Despite the seller's misreading, it is in fact a shape 56--a classic bent that was probably made during its earliest years by French carvers, and one which many of us regard as a part of the Dunhill LC family (along with the 120). While it does appear in...
  5. guylesss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    . . . What Jesse said. . . Viz this FrankenDunhill Duke "519" with an after-market bamboo shank/stem, its shell finish polished smooth and possibly recolored--none of this mentioned by the seller and evidently of no particular concern to half a dozen bidders...
  6. guylesss

    Hello !

    Welcome, Angela. I suspect that at least some of us (including me) are thankful that the realm of pipes and pipe tobacco still remains an amateurs' preserve--in which almost all of the hobby's greatest scholars and connoisseurs have been self-taught, patiently pursuing knowledge and expertise...
  7. guylesss

    Am I Going Mad....

    In a private sale, the most recent one to change hands fetched $70 million. Wire half that into my account by midnight (PP F&F preferred), and my associate--a high ranking cabinet minister in the Nigerian government-- will be in touch to arrange to ship the "hardtop" anywhere you like in the...
  8. guylesss

    Am I Going Mad....

    According to Loring, either unsold (at Dunhill or I assume an authorized retailer) for two-three successive years, or returned to Dunhill for work of some kind, twice. But totally agree it's 1959, Steve. A wretched looking LC from 1965 (with a stem that had lost much of its "swan" bend, if...
  9. guylesss

    Showoff Your Dunhill Pipes Here!

    Wow!
  10. guylesss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Excellent material on pipedia. The 1934 date given is evidently a guess based on a newspaper article (obviously run some years after the pipe was put into production). The pipedia estimate of value (they show a green plastic version as well) ranges from $250-300.
  11. guylesss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    It definitely sounds like you, ChuckMijo, may know more about Dunhill Ladies pipes than I do. Why 1934? Unless I missed it there doesn't seem to be anything in the seller's photos or listing to date the pipe. Nor for that matter, to show whether or not these had Dunhill's usual nomenclature...
  12. guylesss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Maybe someone forgot Valentine's Day? Almost from the start, albeit it with decidedly limited success, Dunhill tried best--with both products and marketing--to create a vogue for pipe smoking among women. Some early examples resembled objects of art deco jewelry with real ivory stems and pave...
  13. guylesss

    A Tanshell LB On The Bench

    Miraculous work, and an especially beautiful, unusually craggy early example of a tanshell. Well done, Steve!
  14. guylesss

    Official Hall of Shame Thread

    An alternative strategy might be to emulate the Japanese method for the repair of shattered porcelain called "Kintsugi"--
  15. guylesss

    Official Hall of Shame Thread

    A delightful idea for a thread--thank you mikethompson! At least from what I've seen on Ebay in recent months, I suspect Dunhill is going to be the hands down winner for incinerated, well-chewed wrecks covered in fowl smelling filth presented as rare collectibles in auctions with ludicrously...
  16. guylesss

    Ebay Help

    Like many other eBay innovations of recent years, the global shipping program (which a seller must opt out of with international listings) is a service clearly intended to benefit eBay. At its best, it is exorbitantly expensive, unreliable, and slow (even in normal times). And its vaguely...
  17. guylesss

    New. But Not New?? Cheers from the Pacific Northwest

    Welcome from New York!
  18. guylesss

    S.T. Dupont Lighter Owners Club

    What a great thread--thank you, EA-6B! Your meticulous repair/restoration work looks terrific. My own ligne 1 large Duponts are all daily workhorses which have worked reliably for years (although my D57--shown open--definitely needs new seals to fix a slow leak).
  19. guylesss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    $3726.99 plus shipping. Bloody Mary Mix not included. Been watching this one for more than week. I was confident that it was going to fetch more than the $302 which was still the top bid this morning--even if, let's face, magnum or not, and its decent, unrestored condition notwithstanding, a...
  20. guylesss

    Hello from Brooklyn, NY!

    Welcome! --From the Williamsburg waterfront, just north of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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