New Dunhill Billiard...Real? Or Fake?

[ssjones]

Looks Grp 3 to my eye. Group 1 pipes are tiny!

Dunhill pipes on Ebay aren't exactly blowing the doors off lately, I'm not sure how folks would be doing knock-off's. Watches, sunglasses, handbags, clothing, sure (I just bought and returned a pair of knock off Maui Jim sunglasses). But pipes? Not likely these days, there are too many more lucrative luxury items/brands to exploit.

Enjoy it!

 

[craiginthecorn]

One thing that I can't square is the underlined 4 without a patent number.

 

[paulfg]

from John lorings article

Dunhill Pipe Shapes – collated by Eric W. Boehm

Blog by Eric Boehm This collated information was collected by Eric Boehm and Permission was granted to include it here on the blog. Many thanks to Eric for the information he has collected for us. …

rebornpipes.com

39 Billiard, saddle bit 3 5½” 1950, 1969 3

 

[lightmybriar]

There’s nothing alarming to me. Unusual? Yes, but not alarming. I believe it to be an underlined 14, making it a 1974. Everything looks to be 1970s to me. The missing “Root Briar” stamp is really the only thing that’s odd. In the big picture, Dunhill was pretty consistent when it came to stamps. Sometimes, though, pipes slipped through with errors. Look at this ODA of mine that’s a Tanshell, yet it’s stamped Root Briar:

 

[JLD66]

Congratulations you have a Dunhill and it looks as if the stem is original also.

 

[Fran the Pipe Man]

Very cool pipe @lightmybriar, and thanks for all the words of wisdom. Now it's time to sit back and smoke one down...