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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 228971"><p>In the friendliest, most congenial fashion possible, you're full of advertising hype.</p><p></p><p>At the moment, there's no way to say with assurance what Dunhill is doing or with what.</p><p></p><p>But what it HAS done, historically and on a long-term basis, is buy clean stummels that fit their dimensional constraints from other manufacturers to finish and stem as Dunhills. </p><p></p><p>That's the way Alfred started, before "Dunhill" ever turned stummel number one, and it's the way they operated even after they began making their own, because demand exceeded supply. The term for it was "buying in" stummels, and it was an open secret in British pipe trade circles. They bought them from every other concern that had them to sell. </p><p></p><p>The main reason why BBB Own Make Virgins are so rare today is because BBB could get more for their clean stummels by selling them to Dunhill than they could by finishing them and selling them under their own marque.</p><p></p><p>The Dunhill-Parker connection is a commercial fact ; much of any connection beyond that is a fairy story and wild, hopeful imagination.</p><p></p><p>Get a nice, old Parker and you'll have a fine pipe to smoke. But not a "Dunhill second."</p><p></p><p>And it will be made from whatever briar was in use at the time it was made.</p><p></p><p>:face:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 228971"] In the friendliest, most congenial fashion possible, you're full of advertising hype. At the moment, there's no way to say with assurance what Dunhill is doing or with what. But what it HAS done, historically and on a long-term basis, is buy clean stummels that fit their dimensional constraints from other manufacturers to finish and stem as Dunhills. That's the way Alfred started, before "Dunhill" ever turned stummel number one, and it's the way they operated even after they began making their own, because demand exceeded supply. The term for it was "buying in" stummels, and it was an open secret in British pipe trade circles. They bought them from every other concern that had them to sell. The main reason why BBB Own Make Virgins are so rare today is because BBB could get more for their clean stummels by selling them to Dunhill than they could by finishing them and selling them under their own marque. The Dunhill-Parker connection is a commercial fact ; much of any connection beyond that is a fairy story and wild, hopeful imagination. Get a nice, old Parker and you'll have a fine pipe to smoke. But not a "Dunhill second." And it will be made from whatever briar was in use at the time it was made. :face: [/QUOTE]
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