Okay, I can't afford a NEW new Dunhill, but this will do. Still has the price sticker on the stem, from 1960. First time I've been able to identify lathe marks in the chamber of a Dunhill (last pic). I realize only nerds look for such stuff.
First new Dunhill Purchase
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Thanks guys. I may not smoke it, but it's the first of this shape (by any maker) that I've had in hand, so now I at least know it appeals to me.
The late great foggymountain had mostly Dunhills which he'd sold as a pipe shop staffer during his teens on Manhattan. When he was an elder, he bought mostly Dunhill/White Spots and mostly prince shape pipes. So I take this one as a sort of legacy of his. It's quite a find. I'm not a Dunhill guy, but I think that is a handsome pipe.
Thanks - yes, it's beautiful. I had been looking at this shape in a Trever Talbert pipe. Now that I know how nice the design is, I'll probably buy one from him.
With pipes like that available, from the golden era - is there any reason to buy a new, inferior, White Spot?
Answer: No!
Great find!
Answer: No!
Great find!
Dunhill, despite the chorus from the nay sayers, nail those classic shapes.
Very nice pipe.
Very nice pipe.
100% - I assume they invented most of them along the way and that’s why.
Good find OP I love the prince shape in general - the one I have just seems weightless when I’m smoking it.
Thanks. I mostly only smoke the 1960's and older ones, but I've had a '68 and a '70 and they were both fine smokers.
Most of the shapes we think of as "classically or quintessentially English" are, in fact, of French origin.
A lot of hallowed English manufacturers eg Comoy, Loewe to name only a couple, are of French origin.
A lot of hallowed English manufacturers eg Comoy, Loewe to name only a couple, are of French origin.
I have 2 of these Dunhill shapes (Prince?). One a birth year estate and the other I bought new. Beautiful pipes and they smoke nicely. Speaking of FoggyMountain, I bought a pipe off him not too long before he passed. A Dunnie size 6 panel. Wonderful smoker!
Beauty! Just bought my first the other day, 1967 Tanshell my birth year and i love it.
Foggy was perhaps the oddest person I ever met. To say he was eccentric, doesn't even begin to cover his persona.
It is a beautiful pipe and you really should smoke it!
BTW, Ram on an interesting back story and one of my favorite Macca songs...Ram on...
I see no problems with it, getting something vintage is quite unique. Plus if you saw the beating my corn cob has taken you wouldn't think too much about the lathe marks XD
Congrats on your new acquisition, not too long ago I was in pretty much similar situation ,bought myself a NOS Dunhill Tanshell which went into my current rotation,no its being smoked by Sundays,pipes are meant to be smoked
