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</gallery> | </gallery><blockquote><q>This meant that the new showroom in the rue de la Paix was obliged to specialise in alternative merchandise such as luxury leather goods, docks and watches, bronzes and in cigarette boxes and cases finished in lapis and jade and, thanks to the enterprise of someone who went to the Far East to acquire the rights, in the lacquer work of Japanese craftsmen. High-quality merchandise of this kind, which sold most successfully in the rue de la Paix, was later taken up in London and New York.</q> Mary Dunhill<ref name=mary18>Dunhill, Mary (1979). Our Family Business (p. 69). Great Britain, The Bodley Head</ref>.</blockquote> | ||
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*'''Note''': From November 1918 through 1939, if a pipe was intended for export to France, the first (or only) line was stamped FABRICATION ANGLAIS. If a pipe was intended for export other then to France or if a pipe was not fitted with an inner tube, the first (or only) line was stamped "MADE IN ENGLAND". The FABRICATION ANGLAIS stamping was retired with World War II and thereafter all pipes including those exported to France were stamped MADE IN ENGLAND.<ref name=jcl24>Loring, J. C. (1998) The Dunhill Briar Pipe - The Patent Years and After (pp. 14-17). Chicago: self-published.</ref>. | *'''Note''': From November 1918 through 1939, if a pipe was intended for export to France, the first (or only) line was stamped FABRICATION ANGLAIS. If a pipe was intended for export other then to France or if a pipe was not fitted with an inner tube, the first (or only) line was stamped "MADE IN ENGLAND". The FABRICATION ANGLAIS stamping was retired with World War II and thereafter all pipes including those exported to France were stamped MADE IN ENGLAND.<ref name=jcl24>Loring, J. C. (1998) The Dunhill Briar Pipe - The Patent Years and After (pp. 14-17). Chicago: self-published.</ref>. | ||
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