When I got home from the Raleigh pipe show I found a box of a dozen old pipes I had bought from Irish. In it was one pipe so dirty and oxidized I could read nothing on the pipe or the stem. Playing with a little fine sandpaper I started to remove the heavy oxidation from the stem and found a white dot! Viola! I had an old Dunhill.
I got it cleaned up, loaded it with Sutliff's Blend No. 5, and it is a nice little smoker.
I wished I had taken a BEFORE photo of it because it's just unbelievable how well it turned out. The nomenclature is thin, but with a jeweler's loupe I can read enough of the nomenclature to date this one to 1931.
It's rough around the bowl rim but good otherwise ... a lucky find!