Famous Dunhill Smokers

[warren99]

I watched the MSNBC documentary on J. Robert Oppenheimer last night and noticed a white spot on the pipe he was smoking during an interview with Edward R. Murrow.

 

[OverMountain]

Seventy years later, the main worry when standing on the top is whether the clouds will allow the mountains behind you to be visible in your selfie. (Also, the pushing and shoving to keep strangers out of your pics can get pretty rough.)


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I could bet that his pipe was still with him. I don’t know that his body was removed after being found. Either way, that was one well travelled Dunhill.

 

[Searock Fan]

I watched the MSNBC documentary on J. Robert Oppenheimer last night and noticed a white spot on the pipe he was smoking during an interview with Edward R. Murrow.

OPPENHEIMER

 

[Lucashly]

Remember, Dunhill used to be second fiddle to Kaywoodie, and though they were both pricey pipes, it wasn't anything like the current White Spot pricing. So, yes, it was an up-market pipe that well-off pipe smokers favored, but it wasn't the corrected-for-inflation equivalent of eight hundred USD for a medium sized smooth briar it is today.

In the economic boom of the 1960's, the economy went crazy, Dunhill jacked its prices through the roof, and they've never come down.

Do you know how well these early Dunhills smoked?

 

[Lucashly]

Remember, Dunhill used to be second fiddle to Kaywoodie, and though they were both pricey pipes, it wasn't anything like the current White Spot pricing. So, yes, it was an up-market pipe that well-off pipe smokers favored, but it wasn't the corrected-for-inflation equivalent of eight hundred USD for a medium sized smooth briar it is today.

In the economic boom of the 1960's, the economy went crazy, Dunhill jacked its prices through the roof, and they've never come down.

What happened? It seems like you can get a Kaywoodie for a song. Or am I not looking back far enough.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Do you know how well these early Dunhills smoked?

Those early Dunhills smoke no better or worse than todays White Spot A Dunhills.