Dunhill Microphone Pipe Value
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No I wouldn’t. If I was gonna drop 3k tonight I’d just get a nice corn cob and pay the duty on 8boxes of ennerdale...
if I was feeling philanthropic, I’d buy the pipe and send it to you. Now would you touch it?
And then you’ll have to eat your hat about making real money selling a pipe!
@woodsroad next year for secret Santa can you just get everyone to send you the cash for what we would spend on the tins and shipping and you can then buy this for @didimauw. If anything, this pipe deserves to be smoked for a year by him
With pleasure!
And I have the hat already picked out. (one my wife made out of salami.)
This pipe has been for sale as long as I can remember. The only reason I see it all the time is I toy with the idea of a birth year Dunhill and every time I search 1981 on sp.com this thing is the top result. I think it was as high as $6k two years ago. I can’t see anyone wanting this unless they curate their own very specific Dunhill collection. I don’t think I’d even drop $100 for this thing, though it is cool I suppose in its own way as a curiosity.
I always stop cold when I encounter the microphone Dunhill online. Wha? Here's a outfit that has an ultra marketing scam going based on a pristine attitude toward tradition and classic design coming up with an item that looks like the valve replacement for a toilet tank. The materials aren't pretty, the design is hardware store, and the price is a sign of mental illness. I have decided it is a $3K joke, and a confession to the savvy pipe community that the prices are cosmic comedy. It is what is often called a tell.
It’s a trophy built by a pipe company, sold for trophy prices to trophy collectors. A bit out of place in a pipe store.
To pick up the scent of what is going on with the Dunhill microphone pipe, I think it helps to understand a little about Cockney rhyming puns, Monte Python, and the sexual puns in Shakespeare, to understand the sidelong clever but sometimes cruel British wit. Of which this pipe is a prime example. It's all done with complete deadpan, no hint of a smile, and a stiff upper lip. I dare say.
free that's what I would need to buy it. That's something though that I think is worth that price. But only to a specific buyer. That's the problem with big dollar items a lot of times, there is a smaller market. You would have to dig the specific history and have the spare cash to want this, but then it would be a treasured thing. To me it be a kind of neat pipe.