What does a White Dot on a Pipe Mean?

[sablebrush52]

My, my! Things are getting a bit testy, aren't they? It's all just a stage of the pendulum swing. For years people would crow about their Dunhill pipes and how they were the best pipes ever made and a bargain at the price and they were rolled on the smooth thighs...

Okay, maybe not rolled on the smooth thighs, but you get my point.

People got fed up with being told that anything that wasn't a Dunhill was second rate. So the pendulum is swinging into "people who love Dunhills are chowder heads" territory. It will swing back. That's just humans being humans.

Dunhill made some of the finest pipes in the history of pipes in a combination of British and Gallic style unique to them.

Others made, and make, pipes every bit a good. I smoked Dunhills and occasionally still do, I just moved on to other makes, like Barling, that suited me more.

Had it not been for the company's myth making and the obnoxious behavior that some of its clientele engaged in as a by-product, this thread wouldn't exist.

In any case, Dunhill made a good pipe, as good as any, for more money than some, and less than others. When all is said and done, it's a tobacco pipe, not an accomplishment.

 

[sablebrush52]

Yep



Happens all the time over cobs and aromatics. He wasn't condemning anyone just stating an opinion.

Yeah, but you're talking about cobs and aromatics...
With cobs there's almost no point to them since the invention of toilet paper.

 

[Chasing Embers]

With cobs there's almost no point to them since the invention of toilet paper.

Much as briar with the availability of meerschaum.

 

[sablebrush52]

Much as briar with the availability of meerschaum.

Funny though, since meerschaum was the material of choice until briar showed up in the 1840's.

BTW, I like my cobs, but I can't occasionally resist poking fun at them.

 

[sablebrush52]

Just to add some new aspect, I submit there are Dunhill pipes in the wild with an ivory insert.

Before the tribe gets too geared up, I am not saying they were ever manufactured with an ivory dot. Some were done in private hands. My Grandfather said his was, but I did not receive the pipe on his death. Who knows?

That seems perfectly plausible.

 

[Donb1972]

Much as briar with the availability of meerschaum.

You're both wrong...who needs briar or meerschaum when they still make clays?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Nearing a close: Get your jibes in! Or make a new point! Or write something hilarious.....

 

[Chasing Embers]

You're both wrong...who needs briar or meerschaum when they still make clays?

You've got a point.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

I have a collection of six Dunhill pipes now and with a little tinkering they're some of my favorites: Barber B Line Pipes Page 1 - J.N. Barber Limited - https://www.smoke.co.uk/acatalog/Barber_B-Line-p1.html
They may have skipped the dot on these but I have some white acrylic rod to remedy that situation.

 

[MacMarty89]

Sure, tell that to everyone who's bought one! You cannot damn everyone who's bought a Dunhill and enjoyed it very much, regardless of how much they paid!

I’m certainly not condemning anyone who has bought a Dunhill, certainly not the vintage ones (when all was sweet in the world). To each his own of course. I’m merely stating that from my point of view Dunhill / The White Spot is overcharging. I’d rather spent my money on a pipe made by a genuine artisan instead of a semi-factory pipe, which caters on a long gone history.