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Dunhill 1985 Bruyere Bent Saddle Bit Apple Shape 5202

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Zitat:
"The Dunhill nomenclature for standard shapes of today really isn't any more complicated than looking at the model code for a given, modern-era Harley-Davidson. I take that back, Harley is far more byzantine. First number is the Group size, the last two is the shape number (per example, the last two of this fine briar is 02, indicating a "bent") and the second number from the left gives you the type of bit (1 = tapered, 2 = saddle, 4 = usually indicates that there is an elongation of bit going on, etc). Well and dandy.
Sadly, unless one has poked for a good while in the world of Dunhill, the secret codes that are layered below the obvious ones are a bit harder to kin... unless you have a trusty guide. Here are three of the double-secret, triple-special codes that usually come with an issued Dunhill decoder ring. 1 in the first position means "What the heck? You almost never see this in the US, you might want to consider getting it, even if you hate tiny pipes, because they make excellent trade-bait!". 6 in the second position means "Either someone was pretty drunk at the stamping machine, or it's pretty close to a churchwarden in length" and a 2 at the second position means not only "saddle" but "Though the saddle is enormously popular bit, especially in bent shapes, Dunhill usually makes only about one saddle to ten "other", so I had best give this one some serious consideration". Coming up next week: "Passably logical speculations on why about one out of fifteen Dunhill produced have a shape number that does not exist, nor could ever exist within their stated nomenclature...". No need to thank me, just doin' my job.

--Bear Graves"



Measurements & Other Details

Length: 5.85 in./148.59 mm. Weight: 2.10 oz./59.53 g.
Bowl Height: 2.15 in./54.61 mm. Chamber Depth: 1.79 in./45.47 mm.
Chamber Diameter: .83 in./21.08 mm. Outside Diameter: 1.53 in./38.86 mm.
Stem Material: Vulcanite Filter: None
Shape: Bent Billiard Finish: Sandblast
Material: Briar Country: England 2003

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Zitat:
"Dunhill classifies the 02 shape as simply "bent", but for all intents and purposes the shape's a bent billiard ("billiard" proper is a title granted the 03, and the presence of the 02/03 is simply Dunhill's quaint manner of designating a straight or bent billiard). While Dunhill goes to great pains to differentiate a straight billiard from a panel billiard (shape 24), it feels no such compunction when it comes to creating a separate number to distinguish a panel bent billiard. No sir, thank you very kindly, both forms are simply an 02. Here we have a bent panel billiard, something of a rarity in and of itself, presented in Dunhill's premiere Root Briar finish. While we have had the pleasure of offering the 5202 in the Shell Briar, Amber Root, Dress and Cumberland finishes, this is our very first to have appeared in the Root Briar! Quite the "first", don't you think?

--Bear Graves"



Measurements & Other Details

Length: 6.04 in./153.42 mm. Weight: 2.30 oz./65.20 g.
Bowl Height: 2.31 in./58.67 mm. Chamber Depth: 1.96 in./49.78 mm.
Chamber Diameter: .86 in./21.84 mm. Outside Diameter: 1.56 in./39.62 mm.
Stem Material: Vulcanite Filter: None
Shape: Panel Finish: Smooth
Material: Briar Country: England 2007