The Elusive Dunhill CK 1950 Pat.

[georged]

Is it a rare shape/year/stamp?

Yes, yes, & yes. 8)
Early CK's are also super-duper-uber-swoopy-streamline-design-mondo-cool. :mrgreen:

 

[uncleblackie]

How rare, Dunhill-wise, are we talking?

 

[georged]

I've seen about ten pre-mid-1960's specimens in 40+ years of collecting and 30+ years of going to shows.

 

[fishnbanjo]

I too have one and since I was born in 1950 I feel even more thankful for having one, I also found other pipes, not author pipes, similarly shaped and find they are as comfortable as the author, yours is a beauty.

banjo

 

[mso489]

I really like that pipe; it just feels a little less reined in than most Dunhills, and the grain is radiant.

 

[skaukatt]

Here's a series of additional photos some of the stem which I suspect is a filter stem - George?

 

[ssjones]

I was going to suggest that the tenon was of the tapered style, but that does look like a filter tenon. I've read that underlined year digits denotes a filter pipe, but that's not very consistent. That seems pretty early to be a filter pipe, but I can't recall when that practice started. I'm sure George has some helpful info. I've fitted a Sav filter into a Dunhill filter pipe in that past, which worked well. (I like my draws a bit, proper-British tight).
I found this RD Field article that mentions the "Absorbal" filter, and the year 1910, so yours is not too early.

http://rdfield.com/previously-published-articl/the-dunhill-pipe-a-comparis.html

By early 1910, Dunhill was ready to offer his own make of pipe as an alternative to those coming from France that were highly varnished and so clogged the pores of the briar. These first pipes were of two distinct internal designs: one followed the French design that is the standard non-filter design of today; the other, the "Absorbal" pipe, used a circular cellulose filter that was pushed into the hollowed-out body of the pipe shank.

 

[skaukatt]

Thanks for the link and info, Al!

 

[saltedplug]

Fabulous shape!