I’m sitting in the parking lot, next to a little Missouri municipal court, getting ready to go buy some milk, bread and other groceries, to take home to my wife, who’s taken a well deserved break to get her hair done in a genuine beauty shop.
I’ve been running around about all day from one little courthouse to another in a land so beautiful the first Mormons believed it was the original Garden of Eden.
Nearly a month ago I risked my informal fine pipe limit of a hundred American dollars on a White Spot pipe, that was stamped NOT FOR SALE. I trusted a German who is a long time member of this forum it was a very high quality pipe, regardless of it’s pedigree, and he thought it was made by Dunhill, and he said the bit was filed a bit thin.
One of my legal assistant’s oldest sons, a boy of about eight was in the office when I managed to swing by, on my way to this last court appearance of the day.
After a stern lecture to never smoke tobacco, it’s addictive and might lead you to an early grave, given in the same tone Harry Hosterman gave me so many years ago, I opened the box with what I am as convinced was made in the Dunhill factory in London England as a best pipe of the highest, largest grade and then rejected entirely because of accident filing the button, as I am the Missouri Meerschaum is also a best grade pipe made in Washington Missouri although the little sticker on the bottom might someday fall off.
I showed that boy how this high grade Dunhill would have been rejected at the Lee factory, for a badly filed button. Notice when the White Spot was down, the stem isn’t aligned with the shank. It could not be re stemmed, and sold as a first.
But make no mistake, hand made quality matters, and it’s evident, and it cannot be counterfeited, whether it’s a knock off of a Missouri Meerschaum in China or a Dunhill in a factory in Italy.
Please tell me, all you know, about how if this pipe had a perfect bit, it’s not the finest and highest grade of luxury briar pipe in the world.
The White Spot is flawless. The hands that inlaid it had done many. The stem to briar fit cannot be described, it’s so flawless.
It was a shame about that accident filing the bit. On a thousand dollar pipe, making another stem would show up. So it was stamped NOT FOR SALE, and likely given to the hands that made it, or perhaps snuck out by the eyes that inspected it.
But no way that would earn a Dunhill stamp, even as a gift pipe.
It hangs perfectly. It’s at least, a hundred dollars worth of huge pipe.
It was something, of a London County Accident.
Try duplicating, the sound of Buck Trent and his electric banjo.
It would be as impossible as duplicating the quality of a best grade pipe.
So, is it a real Dunhill lunchbox special, either made at home or as a factory reject?
Or a fake?
Or could it be a real Dunhill.
Or does it matter, who made a best grade briar pipe?
I’ve been running around about all day from one little courthouse to another in a land so beautiful the first Mormons believed it was the original Garden of Eden.
Nearly a month ago I risked my informal fine pipe limit of a hundred American dollars on a White Spot pipe, that was stamped NOT FOR SALE. I trusted a German who is a long time member of this forum it was a very high quality pipe, regardless of it’s pedigree, and he thought it was made by Dunhill, and he said the bit was filed a bit thin.
One of my legal assistant’s oldest sons, a boy of about eight was in the office when I managed to swing by, on my way to this last court appearance of the day.
After a stern lecture to never smoke tobacco, it’s addictive and might lead you to an early grave, given in the same tone Harry Hosterman gave me so many years ago, I opened the box with what I am as convinced was made in the Dunhill factory in London England as a best pipe of the highest, largest grade and then rejected entirely because of accident filing the button, as I am the Missouri Meerschaum is also a best grade pipe made in Washington Missouri although the little sticker on the bottom might someday fall off.
I showed that boy how this high grade Dunhill would have been rejected at the Lee factory, for a badly filed button. Notice when the White Spot was down, the stem isn’t aligned with the shank. It could not be re stemmed, and sold as a first.
But make no mistake, hand made quality matters, and it’s evident, and it cannot be counterfeited, whether it’s a knock off of a Missouri Meerschaum in China or a Dunhill in a factory in Italy.
Please tell me, all you know, about how if this pipe had a perfect bit, it’s not the finest and highest grade of luxury briar pipe in the world.
The White Spot is flawless. The hands that inlaid it had done many. The stem to briar fit cannot be described, it’s so flawless.
It was a shame about that accident filing the bit. On a thousand dollar pipe, making another stem would show up. So it was stamped NOT FOR SALE, and likely given to the hands that made it, or perhaps snuck out by the eyes that inspected it.
But no way that would earn a Dunhill stamp, even as a gift pipe.
It hangs perfectly. It’s at least, a hundred dollars worth of huge pipe.
It was something, of a London County Accident.Try duplicating, the sound of Buck Trent and his electric banjo.
It would be as impossible as duplicating the quality of a best grade pipe.
So, is it a real Dunhill lunchbox special, either made at home or as a factory reject?
Or a fake?
Or could it be a real Dunhill.
Or does it matter, who made a best grade briar pipe?
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