Grandfather´s pipes: Archive

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Oct 20th

The Dunhills

Well, those are the Dunhills. Here´s a complete list: Billiard (no marking), 1962, sold in 1963, Bruyere Straight Grain ”C” Quality, Fish tail bit EC, 1964, Bruyere LB, 1963, 1964, Bruyere, Fish tail bit OXS, 1962, Root, Fish tail bit #36, 1959?, Shell, Fish tail bit #42, 1960?, Shell, Fish tail bit #48, 1961, Bruyere #56, 1961, Bruyere #59, 1968?, Root, Fish tail bit #60,...

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The shapes, the years...

Ok, now it´s time to move to the next phase of this pipe projet of mine, getting together a list of all the pipes with all the information I can get from the markings on the pipes. I´ll start with the Dunhills. I will use Dunhill Markings, A Dunhill Pipe Dating Guide, one of my grandfather´s catalogues and various pipe sites to get the information I need. If you spot any mistakes, please drop me...

Oct 16th

The collection

Today I picked up my grandfather’s pipe collection, you can see the pipes below this post. The pipes haven’t been smoked for about thirty years. As you can see my grandfather got some nice pipes but I guess he wasn’t that good at keeping them in a good condition. My intention is to clean and restore the pipes. Maybe I can do this myself, maybe I need some help with this. Anyway, I will post...

Oct 16th

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