What’s Your Oldest Dunhill?

[Chasing Embers]

The original white spot was real ivory

Never were. There's more ivory in three of my pipes than has ever been in all Dunhills.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Hold the phone! It was proved pretty conclusively that ivory was not used in the pipes tested. What may have happened years or decades earlier than the test pieces is open to question. But the large majority (90%+?) of existing Dunhill white spots are not ivory.

 

[tbradsim1]

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[/URL][/img] 1943 m[URL=http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/tbradsim/media/image. My birth year.

 

[seacaptain]

He needs to take the "White Spot challenge".

 

[lifesizehobbit]

Easy question; my only Dunhill is 59 years old (my birth year pipe).

 

[dmcmtk]

1923 Bruyere shape 60.

photo credit: Anthony Cook.

 

[jguss]

My oldest is this 1922 shell

I know it's a tiny image, but then it's a tiny pipe. I think Alfred must have made it for one of his grandchildren.

 

[rigmedic1]

My one and only Dunhill is from 1934. Got it for $37.00, and spent $90.00 having a stem made for it. It is a Shell Briar, and appears to be shape known as a chimney. The original stem had been way over buffed, resulting in a paper thin bit. While not the star of my collection, it smokes very well, and seems to enjoy McBaren Latakia Flake best.

 

[orlandofurioso]

A 1919 ( which is not my birth year ) Bruyere 60, with the curved Dunhill over London ( straight ) stamp.

 

[voorhees]

I have (had) 3.
1926 120 Shell shape patent. I sold it.

1927 Shell patent billiard

1971 Shell Cherrywood. (birth year)

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I've never owned a Dunhill myself. For one I never could find a decent one at a decent price and for two I've just never really been a fan of the brand's pipes.
Figured the whole white spot debate would resurface. There's always someone that never takes Neal Caffrey's advice and thinks he's the smartest person in the room.

 

[orlandofurioso]

So what ( are we not entitled to like our Dunghills ) and who the .... is Neal Caffrey

 

[lordofthepiperings]

So what ( are we not entitled to like our Dunghills ) and who the .... is Neal Caffrey

Dunghills? Many people like Dunhills. I hear they're great smokers. Just not personally interested in them.
Neal Caffrey is a character from the show White Collar. It's on Netflix. It's kind of a t.v. version of Catch Me If You Can.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Jon G-- It's not that small!!

My oldest is a 1944 small smooth billiard.

 

[orlandofurioso]

I see.

What is mr. Caffrey's advice ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Dunghills

+1

who the .... is Neal Caffrey

Never heard of him either.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I have two, both '74 Shell Briars. The zulu is my knock around yard work/auto repair/fishing pipe, and the LB billiard is a bonsai pot.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I see.

What is mr. Caffrey's advice ?

“Never think you’re the smartest person in the room.”

 

[ashdigger]

The level of butthurt because someone enjoys Dunhills is weird to me.
I don't like Savinelli pipes but I don't post smack about them in EVERY Savinelli thread.
So odd.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I do enjoy mine, I just don't consider them as being more than beaters and aromatic pipes.