While skulking around a local flea market (which I will never name just in case this ever happens again), I ran across a Dunhill Patent briar from (if I'm reading it right) 1948. I bought it for ten bucks.
10 bucks.
The stem has no dot, or bump, or sign of either ever being there, so I assume it is a replacement, but 10 bucks.
I would love to get advice on how best to treat this pipe. I've called Schulte's after reading about where to have a Dunhill properly repaired (probably found him here), and I am waiting to hear back.
Should I pay to have a new stem fashioned that is as "official" as it can be? Should I try to buy a matching stem? What would you do?
I haven't decided if I want to keep it and smoke it, or sell it. I'm very happy smoking my Boswells, so I'm leaning toward selling, because from what I've read, these particular Dunhills are absurdly valuable on the estate market. I could buy 3 more B's...
10 bucks.
The stem has no dot, or bump, or sign of either ever being there, so I assume it is a replacement, but 10 bucks.
I would love to get advice on how best to treat this pipe. I've called Schulte's after reading about where to have a Dunhill properly repaired (probably found him here), and I am waiting to hear back.
Should I pay to have a new stem fashioned that is as "official" as it can be? Should I try to buy a matching stem? What would you do?
I haven't decided if I want to keep it and smoke it, or sell it. I'm very happy smoking my Boswells, so I'm leaning toward selling, because from what I've read, these particular Dunhills are absurdly valuable on the estate market. I could buy 3 more B's...