2001 Dunhill Christmas Sandblasted Silver Spigot Billiard Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

To veteran pipe smokers, Dunhill needs no introduction. Beginning in 1907, Alfred Dunhill began selling Dunhill pipes at the tobacconist shop he owned on London’s Duke Street. Very quickly, these pipes gained the reputation of being the ‘Rolls-Royce’ of pipes due to how expertly crafted they were. Today, Dunhill is likely Britain’s most famous pipe manufacturer, and continues to produce some of the most treasured pipes a smoker can buy.

While special, annual “Christmas” pipes today are most commonly associated with Peterson and Savinelli, there was a time when this trend was dominated by English pipe companies. BBB, for example, made Christmas pipes at least as early as the 1960s, and Comoy’s soon followed. Similarly, Dunhill began releasing its own, limited edition Christmas pipes in 1980, but being Dunhill, the make went a little further in their celebrations than most. In the 1990s, Dunhill began to add extra thematic elements to these seasonal releases, with 1993-2004 being a series of pipes based on the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas”; 1993 was “A Patridge In a Pear Tree,” for example, 1994 was “Two Turtle Doves,” and so on. The theme of this Christmas Dunhill, from 2001, is “Nine Drummers Drumming.” I do wonder whether, given the military connotations of “drummers” (at least, as existed before the birth of popular music), the use of an army mount spigot for this particular pipe was more meaningful than might first be imagined.

This Christmas Dunhill is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating, It’s quite a feat, given that only 500 of these pipes were ever made. The pipe comes with its original themed presentation case, but the tamper that originally came with the pipe has been lost to time. The price of the pipe has therefore been adjusted to reflect this.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.86 / 21.84mm

Bowl Depth: 1.64″ / 41.65mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 48g