Weird Dunhill Double Date Suffix... Anyone Can Help?

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DedeHD

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Hallo, I last year i revitalized my passion for pipes and I started to collect and smoke (best part of it) vintage British pipes. Charatan’s, Orlik, GBD, BBB, Masta patent, Parker, etc., an obviously Dunhill. I’ve been reading pages and pages on how to date the different brands, but I recently found an intriguing situation... a Dunhill Root Briar with - apparently - two different date suffix:
- first: a small ”8” after “ENGLAND”; this should mean the pipe is from 1958
- second: slightly on a right-lower end from that, a small underlined “9”.

I kindly ask anyone willing to help me out, to drop a short reply to this post. Thank you very much and happy smoke to everyone
 

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EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9)

Hallo, I last year i revitalized my passion for pipes and I started to collect and smoke (best part of it) vintage British pipes. Charatan’s, Orlik, GBD, BBB, Masta patent, Parker, etc., an obviously Dunhill. I’ve been reading pages and pages on how to date the different brands, but I recently found an intriguing situation... a Dunhill Root Briar with - apparently - two different date suffix:
- first: a small ”8” after “ENGLAND”; this should mean the pipe is from 1958
- second: slightly on a right-lower end from that, a small underlined “9”.

I kindly ask anyone willing to help me out, to drop a short reply to this post. Thank you very much and happy smoke to everyone
Spiffy pipe ; what is the shape nr. ?
It matters when it comes to "dating" the pipe.