Unintentional Comedy Gold

[georged]

https://www.ebay.ch/itm/Dunhill-Root-Briar-Pipe-Pfeife-very-rare-shape-1968-TOP-Condition-noFi/172864918591?hash=item283f8d543f:g:pt0AAOSwy69ZujrU
:rofl:

 

[sablebrush52]

So someone took their yo-yo, and carved Dunhill on it? Doesn't look like a top, so how can it be in top condition?

 

[brian64]

So someone took their yo-yo, and carved Dunhill on it?

I'm not seeing the name on the pipe itself. I think the problem is the ebay English translation...it should read Duncan.

 

[mikethompson]

At first glance - does it have a bowl at all?
Are these the ones that are supposed to lay flat in your chest pocket? I feel that you posted something about that once Jesse

 

[georged]

I can't decide if someone made a stamp freehand, or just straight up etched the "stamping" freehand (like jewelers do to the backs of watches & etc.)

 

[sablebrush52]

An opera pipe it is not. And if you look at the crude lettering that was scratched onto the sides of the shank, a Dunhill it is not. If it's anything, it's a craphill.

 

[beefeater33]

Here's an authentic 584:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-VINTAGE-DUNHILL-584-ROOT-BRIAR-4R-PIPE-VERY-UNUSUAL-GOLF-CLUB-SHAPE-1967-/311777220721?hash=item48975ed871&nma=true&si=Za8gdGHLjx83edvvt8cLUYeswFg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

[buckaroo]

Yeah, that's a good one. geez

 

[smokeyweb]

Somebody will most certainly purchase and smoke that yo-yo and claim it provides a far superior smoking experience to other peasant pipes!

 

[danielplainview]

Seems legit. I mean it’s got the white dot, so....

 

[glpease]

There's all kinds of not right about that thing. Unfortunately, the shape isn't one of them. Or, it is, but it's legitimately not right not by being a fake shape, but by being a shape that should never have been. The colour bugs me almost as much as the "stamping," which looks like a fifth grader scribbled it on with one of those vibrating engraving tools. What I find fascinating is that the genuine version beefeater pointed to may have been the model for this possible fraud. Dunhill stamping has never been that consistently placed from one pipe to the next, so the erstwhile engraver might have used the photos of the genuine 584 as a guide for his forgery. The letter spacing is wrong, clearly, and more than a little comical, but the placement is just too coincidental.
Funny stuff. It doesn't surprise me that someone bought it, and it's possible the buyer may be a real Dunhill collector; John Loring was always on the hunt for examples of the counterfeit Dunhills that were made in the 80s.
But, that "stamping." For realz?