Which Root Briar Should I Keep?

[PaulTheScandinavian]

+ 1 for the pipesticks comment.

 

[londonmake]

keep the '62
why? It's more of a rare shape and it's age is from a golden decade in Dunhill production!

 

[alan73]

Keep neither. Buy a corn cob pipe instead . Three quarters to 90% of this forum says there is NO difference in smoking between any pipes. I think they are all freaking crazy, but listen to the masses.

Dunhills are very common , you can always pick up another one later when money isn't tight.

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

@alan73

+1

 

[mso489]

Keep 'em both and sell something else. You'll end up buying another pipe if you sell one, and it won't be as good. Stick with what you have, I say.

 

[thesmokindragon]

62 has my vote

 

[mso489]

I'm not a Dunhill guy, but I'm certainly hanging on to my Ser Jacopo, Ferndown, and Bob Hayes, etc., though I have a crew of MM and Old Dominion cobs that I do enjoy. Also I like my Jerry Perry hand carved in briar, Mountain Laurel, and Cocobolo, for which Jerry does not ask high prices, but which smoke quite elegantly these past sixteen years. It's a conundrum, as we have all discussed, but high price and good smoking are not categorically linked. To put it differently, just because a pipe cost a lot doesn't mean it's a mediocre smoke!

 

[npod]

Double post

 

[Civil War]

Both

 

[npod]

@lightmybriar,
I don’t know if this will help you make your decision or not. However, I only have ONE UNSMOKED pipe in my collection, and that is an unsmoked Dunhill Root Briar 40 4R Lovat (1962). I LOVE this pipe. So much so that I’m saving it to smoke for when I retire. It’s the same as the one you have and pre 1970s. Maybe that will influence you. My vote is cast. I’ll buy yours if you want to sell (pray you keep it though).

 

[lightmybriar]

It's really been great reading all of your thoughts and opinions. I'm laughing to myself because at one point or another, I have thought all the same things you have mentioned. At the moment, I still have both pipes...but the need for some extra funds is still looming and so I've got to part with some of my faithful soldiers here very soon. I've come to peace with which ones will be moving on to someone else's collection...but now I'm left with having to take the next step and actually get them up and available.
This must be, on a very minuscule level, what it will feel like when one day my daughter gets married, HA!
Npod, that's a real beauty, and what a treasure with it being unsmoked!