An interesting pipe

[hauntedmyst]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Unicorn-1929-Dunhill-HWo-Shape-S28-Racing-Car-Pipe-in-Unrestored-Condition/202764541662?hash=item2f35b55ede:g:FZkAAOSwfWldY1bR
I've never seen anything like it and certainly not from Dunhill. Is it double sided by design or burnt out?

 

[alaskanpiper]

What the............what the?
The Dunhill Hammerhead?

 

[dmcmtk]

The motoring pipe. Dunhill's response to my email inquiry about another one of these pipes in 2014,
"The featured pipe is our old shape “S”.

The “S” is a Quaint (=non-standard) shape and, more specifically was promoted as a pipe suitable for “Motoring”. Please find attached a copy from our 1923’s ‘About Smoke’ Trade catalogue (Export edition), which features this pipe

In 1923, this pipe retailed in our store on 514 Fifth Avenue, New York for $ 12.00 in Bruyere finish (compared to a standard Bruyere at $ 10.00).

It is a quite an unusual Quaint shape, the production volume of this shape would have been rather low, making it certainly a rather rare piece although not a unique one. It is most certainly not a prototype."

 

[hauntedmyst]

Good info dmcmtk. I can't imagine the hit ashes didn't come flying out of that thing.

 

[dmcmtk]

Good info dmcmtk. I can't imagine the hit ashes didn't come flying out of that thing.

It was designed to be smoked horizontally...things might have gotten a bit dicy in the passenger seat! :D

 

[jaytex1969]

How do you see the road if you are horizontal? :roll:
:nana:

 

[georged]

If not for the catalog page proving otherwise, I would have figured it was a croquet mallet. Dunhill made any number of novelty shapes by request back then---whether because such shape-echo items were societally "trendy" in general, or simply for publicity---with golf clubs being the most popular.
I definitely don't see the motoring connection, in any event. Real live PipeWorld wtf... :?:

 

[npod]

History doesn't lie (historians do).
Well, here we have it. Another good idea that actually wasn't.

 

[dmcmtk]

...with golf clubs being the most popular.

Yes, I've seen them both by Comoy's and Dunhill. Here we have Dunhill 701 F/T Root Briar 4 R,

:D

 

[geopiper]

I'm not sure I understand how the "hammerhead" pipe would be more successful than a standard pipe while motoring. Is it about airflow?

 

[alaskanpiper]

I'm not sure I understand how the "hammerhead" pipe would be more successful than a standard pipe while motoring. Is it about airflow?

I'm not sure how the hammerhead would be successful at all!!! Motoring or otherwise!

 

[burleyboy]

Some of these odd Dunhill shapes can not be explained otherwise than a consistent implementation of the English humor.
By the way, it seems, that we have already had a thread about such a pipe:

http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/perhaps-the-strangest-pipe-i-have-seen
The one mentioned in the older thread was sold for US $2,236.99. Unsurprisingly, Cosmic did also call the shape Hammerhead, back then.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Holy flying embers! That thing looks lethal even stationary with no wind.
And, dmc, I see my old persimmon driver in that one!