First Dunhill - Found in Some Random Pipes that Came with a Display My Wife Bought on Facebook

[verporchting]

Bron340 is spot on the money with his advice.

Research what you’ve got and have a professional restore them. You have some nice pipes there and it would be a shame to ruin them because you don’t have the professional skills to work on them.

Great find and I hope you enjoy them all. Well done to your wife!!!

 

[ofafeather]

Oh, dang, that's good to know. Maybe I could put some sort of black backing on the glass.

Just away from the sun should be ok.

 

[mikestanley]

I recommend keeping that lady! She did very well.

Mike S.

 

[mbbuckland]

I'm relaying all of the compliments to her. Maybe she'll let me get some of these restored. My original thought was to run some everclear through them and use them.

 

[donjgiles]

WOW!!!
Greta score! That Dunhill Bulldog is a nice one, as is the Comoy's!!!
I think the Dunhill is an ODA.

 

[kcghost]

This pipes need to be professionally restored. Whatever you do DON'T take a buffer to the nomenclature.

 

[weezell]

Home Run!!!!...

 

[pepesdad1]

Yeah, you got a hell of a score with this load of pipes...looks like several real winners!

 

[ssjones]

I love hearing stories like this, the pipe equivalent of "A Cobra in a Barn" (car story).

Just hang the case out of direct sunlight, and/or put a piece of auto tin on the back. Those Sherlock Holmes cases usually go for around $100-$150.

 

[dmcmtk]

Some very nice pipes there! BBB Thorneycroft are great smokers. A couple of Comoy's made pipes, GBD's, great score.

"That Dunhill Bulldog is a nice one, as is the Comoy's!!!
I think the Dunhill is an ODA."

It's shape O. A Dunhill catalog from 1938, see page 21.

About smoke : an encyclopaedia of smoking : Alfred Dunhill Ltd : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/b24919512/page/22/mode/2up

 

[shanez]

That is fantastic!

 

[mingc]

Just away from the sun should be ok.

Depends on your tolerance for green. Mine is extremely low. It bugs the hell out of me to see any green at all. Even vulcanite stored in drawers aren't assured of not oxidizing. I wished someone had told me that when I started in the mid 2000s. I used to keep some of my herd on top, and the remainder behind the glass doors, of my China hutch. The ones on top went green the quickest. The ones behind glass doors, slower. But all the black vulcanites in my early collection, even the german ones, eventually needed restoration, some multiple times. The most oxidation resistant stem belong to a 4-number kaywoodie.

I'm about to sell a Gray I otherwise love because it has a stem junction where three planes meet at a peak right at the shank. That sharp junction is screwed if any attempt is made to remove oxidation there. It sucks, but that's the reality of vulcanite.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Good on your wife!?️

 

[maduromadness]

Definitely have a few high end pipes worth the wait to get them restored properly. The previous smoker valued those to have them in the case, and a couple of them caught my eye to still have retained high value.

 

[Ziggywm]

Air, Sunlight, sylvia/water, alcohol - all speed the oxidation of vulcanite, a hard rubber that has Sulfer in it. I recommend a visit to YouTube on restoring vulcanite bits, and pipes in general. I echo the many comments here on receiving a nice find!

 

[gamzultovah]

Some are pretty rough.

All of them well loved. They should clean up nicely. I hope your wife got a nice, big kiss?

 

[mbbuckland]

I cleaned up and took the Tanthorne Weber out for a drive last night. It smoked great. It wasn't one mentioned here so I was a little more comfortable doing a quick cleaning with everclear and some light scrubbing. I'm also having fun just researching these to see what they're all about.

There are some in this bunch that were this person's workhorses. I'm still thinking that several should be professionally restored, but I may research restoration and try it on the more used pipes. I found an article on soaking in OxyClean to remove the oxidation. Is this a safe way to bring the stems back to black?

 

[Fiddlepiper]

I cleaned up and took the Tanthorne Weber out for a drive last night. It smoked great. It wasn't one mentioned here so I was a little more comfortable doing a quick cleaning with everclear and some light scrubbing. I'm also having fun just researching these to see what they're all about.

There are some in this bunch that were this person's workhorses. I'm still thinking that several should be professionally restored, but I may research restoration and try it on the more used pipes. I found an article on soaking in OxyClean to remove the oxidation. Is this a safe way to bring the stems back to black?

I'm definitely not an expert but it's helped me clean up some oxidised stems. It wasn't a miracle cure all though. Just a step in the longer process for the bad ones.

 

[Thepipehunter]

I found my first Dunhill in a very similar way. Congrats!

 

[pappymac]

I have a Sherlock Holmes cabinet like yours mounted on the wall in my office where its not exposed to direct sunlight. It's a great cabinet for straight pipes.

Personally, I would send the Dunhill's off to one of the professional pipe shops and have them cleaned and polished and the stems looking like new. I would suggest Georged if you don't mind spending the money. You have a couple of others that I would send off for cleaning also.