Weird Dunhill Stem & Tenon

[Dshift]

I have never seen anything like this and all of my alarms are kicking in, but let's see if it's just something obvious that only I didn't know...
A dunhill with no white dot on the stem but a big white dot on the tenon?!? My guess - some kind of replacement maybe...

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Now THAT is a first for me..

 

[Dshift]

Now THAT is a first for me..

Im glad, it's not just me being oblivious about something obvious

 

[Sigmund]

The Dunhill for those who dont want to appear pretentious!

 

[Dshift]

The Dunhill for those who dont want to appear pretentious!

A sleeper dunhill

 

[Alejo R.]

James bond undercover limited series of Dunhill.

 

[Alejo R.]

I'm Hill, Dun hill

 

[xrundog]

Read about this in another topic. Don’t remember the particulars but it’s a thing.

 

[lukasstrifeson]

The Dunhill for those who dont want to appear pretentious!

The Discrete Dunhill.

Known internally as the Double Ds.

 

[Hupp]

Read about this in another topic. Don’t remember the particulars but it’s a thing.

I remember that too. It was an amber stemmed Dunhill.

1920 Amber-stemmed Dunhill Without a White Spot :: British Pipes

Revisiting A Closed Topic — In August 2020, I posted about a cased 1920 amber-stemmed Dunhill billiard I had purchased which lacked the characteristic White Spot on the stem. It was originally purchased from Mappin & Webb, a Parisian jeweler. A friend, Anthony Sacco, mentioned that he thought...

pipesmagazine.com

 

[pinem]

Is it possible the original tendon broke off, and the stem was turned down and shortened to make a new tendon?

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I wonder if the pipe’s original stem was amber (which might explain the tenon having the hidden white dot) and the fragile amber stem shattered; the 45⁰ angle typically seen at the base of Dunhill tenons doesn’t seem to be present, suggesting the original tenon might’ve been cut down so that it could be inset into the replacement vulcanite stem.

 

[greeneyes]

Looks to me like the tenon snapped on the original and they machined a new tenon further up the stem (overlapping the spot). Look at the shank, it's been worked down too.

 

[sablebrush52]

I’ve seen this before on an early Dunhill, but I don’t remember where or the reason for it, but it was a thing that they did.

You might check the Pipedia Dunhill article to see if there’s something on it there.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Is it possible the original tendon broke off, and the stem was turned down and shortened to make a new tendon?

That was going to be my guess.