Dunhill Nomenclature - SP?

[bluegrassbrian]

Friend just acquired a Root Briar shape 120 and the letters SP are stamped with the rest of the nomenclature.
Other examples can be seen from a google search but I haven’t found an explanation.

Anyone know?

 

[georged]

Yours is only the second 120 SP I've heard of.

I have the other:

1965 Dunhill Bruyere (shape 120) :: British Pipes

Some guys are straight grain collectors, others are eye-popping birdseye collectors. Me? I've always been drawn to something I call "granite grain." Super-tight end grain bowls that don't have any (or many) dots, but, up close, look more like compressed paisley than anything else, and from...

pipesmagazine.com

Still trying to find out what it means after 30 years...

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Yours is only the second 120 SP I've heard of.

I have the other:

1965 Dunhill Bruyere (shape 120) :: British Pipes

Some guys are straight grain collectors, others are eye-popping birdseye collectors. Me? I've always been drawn to something I call "granite grain." Super-tight end grain bowls that don't have any (or many) dots, but, up close, look more like compressed paisley than anything else, and from...

pipesmagazine.com

Still trying to find out what it means after 30 years...

Wow ?

 

[bluegrassbrian]

 

[guylesss]

Yours is only the second 120 SP I've heard of.

I have the other:

1965 Dunhill Bruyere (shape 120) :: British Pipes

Some guys are straight grain collectors, others are eye-popping birdseye collectors. Me? I've always been drawn to something I call "granite grain." Super-tight end grain bowls that don't have any (or many) dots, but, up close, look more like compressed paisley than anything else, and from...

pipesmagazine.com

Still trying to find out what it means after 30 years...

It really is a mystery, George. I was going to suggest how very annoying the laws of physics can be--and complain that we can't turn back the clock fifteen years-- so you could reach out to John Loring, since this was exactly the sort of geeky question he relished and loved solving.

BUT his October 2004 "update page" for The Dunhill Briar Pipe specifically notes the SP stamp; although, regrettably, without any explanation of what it might mean, in a paragraph titled: "NEWLY REPORTED STAMPS".

"1956 & 1958 (possibly 1968) Root--an "SP" underneath the Circled Group Size/Finish code. . .".

And that's all he wrote.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

It really is a mystery, George. I was going to suggest how very annoying the laws of physics can be--and complain that we can't turn back the clock fifteen years-- so you could reach out to John Loring, since this was exactly the sort of geeky question he relished and loved solving.

BUT his October 2004 "update page" for The Dunhill Briar Pipe specifically notes the SP stamp; although, regrettably, without any explanation of what it might mean, in a paragraph titled: "NEWLY REPORTED STAMPS".

"1956 & 1958 (possibly 1968) Root--an "SP" underneath the Circled Group Size/Finish code. . .".

And that's all he wrote.

Saw that.

 

[mso489]

We need to hold a seance to invoke foggymountain who knew his Dunhills. He sold them as a teenager in Manhattan. Maybe some of the Dunhill specialists still here can answer this.

 

[BROBS]

SuperPipe
the best pipe they make, obvee.

 

[sasquatch]

Sanded Prettywell.

 

[doug535]

Social Pariah?

 

[jguss]

They were presentation pipes made by Dunhill for Sergei Prokofiev, who in his will passed them on to Sidney Pollack, who later gifted them to Scottie Pippen.

The tradition started long before Dunhill was established with Simon Peter. The original chain was broken with Samuel Pepys, since nobody could be found willing to put in their mouths anything that had been in his.

 

[BROBS]

They were presentation pipes made by Dunhill for Sergei Prokofiev, who in his will passed them on to Sidney Pollack, who later gifted them to Scottie Pippen.

The tradition started long before Dunhill was established with Simon Peter. The original chain was broken with Samuel Pepys, since nobody could be found willing to put in their mouths anything that had been in his.

But then will Scottie Pippen “pass” them and gain yet another assist?

 

[anotherbob]

supper pipe as it can also be used as a ladle. Add something to a bland soup.

 

[greeneyes]

This '59 OXS F/T is also a (4)R "SP" : please forgive the terrible photo, it was the best I could do in the dark with the camera flash.

 

[Chasing Embers]

smoking pipe

 

[saltedplug]

Sanguine Pipplefish

 

[kcghost]

Special Pipe??

 

[orlandofurioso]

Socially Pretentious