Why don’t they get more respect?

[fishnbanjo]

When I went looking for a birth year Dunhill I found 1950 was a difficult year to obtain, they were either already gone or out of the range of my wallet. I persevered and kept looking then this 1948 Dead Root appeared and I was a Pot shape something akin to the Rodney Dangerfield of the pipe world not getting much respect. I had a few Pot shapes in my collection and I really liked them so I inquired to the pipe to see if it were still available and what else I could learn.
The earliest grading system Dunhill used is a bit cryptic since mine is considered a high grade and it’s official designation is DRR C-EE, don’t ask me to decipher it because I can’t, all I know is it smokes as good as it looks. Keeping it smokey with more Comoy Cask 7 Single Roll Slice.

banjo

 

[sasquatch]

Pots, you mean, in terms of respect? I don't know. Done just right they are beautiful, and to my mind, GBD rather than Dunhill got the thing perfected:

The slight bevel, the shank proportions... everything just sing on this design. It's like they took the basic idea of a pot and pushed it in every direction to make it aesthetically perfect.

 

[timt]

I recently bought a Comoy's bent pot and like it a lot. I don't think they look bad at all and in fact I'll smoke this sucker in public any day. :: I think your Dunhill there is a very nice looking pipe.

 

[mso489]

The broad bowl on many classic cylindrical pots does an especially good job with complex blends of four, five, or more tobaccos, maybe because it lets more different tobaccos burn at once. I don't have a Dunhill, but the Savinelli 122, slightly bent -- mine in the Aurelius series -- is well designed and carried off. There are several other versions of pots that are not strictly cylindrical like the one Sixten Iversson designed for Stanwell. Maybe like the poker, the simplicity of the pot looks ordinary to some, but I think it can be elegant when carried off well. Dunhill pots set the standard for traditional pots.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I think the number one problem with the pot shape is its name. When I search for bulldog pipes or dublin pipes, I get what I am looking for in the results. When I do a search for pot pipes... well...

 

[voorhees]

I love them. Especially my favorite version a Charatan shaped pot. I have a Comoy and like it very much.

 

[seldom]

I have a Vauen pot and a Charatan's pot and really enjoy them. My only complaint is that the Vauen is too wide to fit the wind caps I have. That Dunhill you have is a real beauty.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I have one pot in my collection. It's a rusticated straight by Dr. Bob Kiess. I love the pipe. It's compact and easy to take to a pub and have a bowl. It is the only pot in my collection though. Haven't seen others really that caught my eye the way the Dr. Bob one did.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I don't disrespect pot shapes, just don't like them.
That Dunhill pot is very fine, though, and I'd smoke it.

 

[mso489]

Cosmic may have a point, the name may be a problem. Although it is also descriptive and succinct. Calling it something else might have a better ring but be misleading. I can't match up the actual shape with anything that captures the look. Castle Tower would make it sound taller than a billiard. Cauldron would make it sound more curved in the sides. Etc. Anyone else want to take a shot at a descriptive but more appealing name?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Anyone else want to take a shot at a descriptive but more appealing name?

Sauce pan?

 

[smittyd]

Half stack?