Whiskey Tango Foxtrot ?!

[murica]

I can't even do anything except laugh.

 

[woodsroad]

Maybe it was made from briar that had been grafted?

 

[agnosticpipe]

After looking at this again, I can't figure out how the shank splice doesn't mess up the stamping. Even on the word Tube, it splits the u right in the middle with no loss of spacing. Yes the grain is not matching at all, but I can't figure how the stamping survived with out being messed up. And what are the odds that someone would have two Duke St. pipes they used to piece together with the stamping so perfectly aligned?
I agree something's hinkey here, but that splice seems too accurate to not be from the factory.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Pretty certain the "stamping" was done post splice.... By an unsteady hand.

 

[ssjones]

As my old wood shop teacher used to say "it looked like it growed that way".

 

[georged]

After looking at this again, I can't figure out how the shank splice doesn't mess up the stamping.

I've seen a couple LC's with factory spliced shanks, but they weren't originally made that way. They'd been dropped/broken and the pipe returned to Dunhill to be rescued by grafting, which included deep refinishing and re-stamping.
It's likely that's what happened here. You'd think (given the pipe's grade) that a closer grain match would have been found, but grain wouldn't become a Big Deal for another 60 years or so. Meaning if the repair was done before then, no one would probably mind.
As for the rest, the bowl topping is ham-fisted---not just the depth of it, but the texture, color, and edge matching make the work obvious. And the stem, of course, is not even remotely close for a Dunhill. The less said about it, the better. I suspect those two things were done recently.
Could it be the seller's computer just has a sticky "0" key and he thought he typed $12.00? :lol:

 

[flmason]

If EBay was a good company they would ban this sale BUT since all they care about is sales $ and their cut they will allow this seller to sell bad items to not informed buyers. It is very sad that not all sellers are honest.