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  1. guylesss

    Internal ("Band-Less") Shank Repair -- (Video Set)

    Utterly astonishing, beautiful work. Miraculous. And as lucky as I felt I was to find the pipe earlier this year. I feel even more fortunate that George agreed to accept the unbelievably daunting challenges involved in saving it. Thank you, George! Saying you are The Best seems to me a woeful...
  2. guylesss

    Optimism

    Such optimism about Dunhills seems to be contagious these days (though perhaps this is an unfortunate choice of words). There's this perfectly nice group 2 Root Briar "reduced to sell" described as "grandfather's. . . pride and joy" at $1850 (with its box and some papers and free...
  3. guylesss

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    A freshly opened tin of 2017 Margate in a white stemmed (2007) 4144 shell billiard. This likely to be as close I'll ever get to an ivory stemmed patent Dunhill-- not that I've stopped hunting.
  4. guylesss

    Save Boxes?

    I too keep boxes. Maybe half a dozen from Dunhill pipes varying in vintage from 1952-2004, a couple of which remain unsmoked. My impression is--at least in a vague way, and particularly with anything NOS that's decades old--boxes can a add quite a lot to value, perhaps in part because the...
  5. guylesss

    ST Dupont Tribute for $35.00 or $120,000.00 For This...

    Puuleez! Solid platinum, or a least a thin shell, I believe. Although, if I were going to throw a few years income at a total stranger to buy ugly, "limited edition" collector bling ostensibly to celebrate some meaningless corporate "anniversary" I might go with this flashy fountain pen...
  6. guylesss

    Really Bad Names for Tobacco...

    Stalin's Delight Sherlock's Home Leaf Me Alone Night Twain Don's Early Lite
  7. guylesss

    PBAD - Show Your Pipe Books Here

    I am well aware of Georged's brilliant demonstration (which wholly convinced me), as well as the unsubstantiated legend that circulated for decades, both. What has not been debunked, insofar as I know, was that Dunhill did offer actual ivory stems before World War II. As well as making...
  8. guylesss

    PBAD - Show Your Pipe Books Here

    Although not, as I discovered, much of a "pipe book" (when it arrived at last after a five week voyage from the UK), I was happy to finally get my own copy of Dunhill by Design: A Very English Story (2005), last week. This after sporadically hunting for an affordable copy for several years...
  9. guylesss

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    There really are far worse ways of beginning a summer workweek than BB1938 (in a 40 year old Dunhill 41032 shell with a military mount), and a very large espresso.
  10. guylesss

    Why Prof. Einstein Smoked Pipe This Way?

    Without, I hope--getting totally lost in the weeds here--for the makers and retailers of luxury products, especially, royal patronage and being the holder of Royal Warrants was once a huge big deal, both in England and other countries. Even before he became Prince of Wales (in 1910), Edward...
  11. guylesss

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    My Mixture BB1938--for now at least the final incarnation of "Baby's Bottom"--in a Dunhill "Duke."
  12. guylesss

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    Absolutely content with another day of Stonehaven. In my oldest pipe--a 1920 Dunhill 56 bruyere.
  13. guylesss

    My Latest - “Saseini” Sic Four Dot Amesbury (Sasieni)

    Gorgeous!
  14. guylesss

    Why Prof. Einstein Smoked Pipe This Way?

    Absolutely excellent observation and reasoning re the poor design of table top pipe racks. As for the mysterious habits of the British aristocracy and the royal family, and tossing out grotty old things, my knowledge is limited--particularly with regard to pipes. Nonetheless from what I have...
  15. guylesss

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

    Two very pleasant weeks reacquainting myself with Nightcap. And to start July, vintage Stonehaven in a 1969 Dunhill Root 56 (not Route 66, alas). Thank you fightnhampster!
  16. guylesss

    Tamper Talk

    Embarrassingly fancy (though I do hope in an understated way)--made by Eloi Pernet, a company now probably best known for making multi-purpose knives concealed in old French silver coins. Retailed by Dunhill and Hermes in the 1970s, with patience they can regularly found at very reasonable prices.
  17. guylesss

    Why Prof. Einstein Smoked Pipe This Way?

    Great question! The Duke of Windsor seemed to have stored some of his Dunhills this way--which has long struck me as a bit odd (not to mention how aggressively chewed and very charred they were).
  18. guylesss

    How Deep is Your Cellar?

    15-20 blends with 1-2 lbs of each (1/2 bought new from B&Ms; some bought--even 10 years ago-- from reliable sources already "cellared" for 5+ years). Then maybe another 5-10 blends that are recent acquisitionsI'm either revisiting or trying out (old favorites, recently reformulated, and a couple...
  19. guylesss

    Who Made This One?

    A terrific find, a beautiful job of bringing the pipe back to life, and excellent detective work. I've dim memories of visiting their shop (and that of Balkan Sobranie too) as a teenager at a minor English boarding school. And I must say it is hard to believe how civilized the world of London...
  20. guylesss

    SurePost Delays

    Seriously NOT a good time for shipping to or from anywhere by any means. And in my case, scanning has often only made the waiting worse (I'm still scratching my head over why a recent parcel made a week of it touring rural post offices of South Carolina in transit between London and New York)...
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