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[[File:Walesprince--pipe-smoking-cigar-smoking.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Prince of Wales]] | [[File:Walesprince--pipe-smoking-cigar-smoking.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Prince of Wales]] | ||
[[File:L1010140.JPG|thumb|160px|right|A table in the Duke of Windsor’s study. Government House, Nassau, Bahamas, February 1941. By Harold Haliday Costain.]] | [[File:L1010140.JPG|thumb|160px|right|A table in the Duke of Windsor’s study. Government House, Nassau, Bahamas, February 1941. By Harold Haliday Costain.]] | ||
[[File:DukeWindsor1pipeR.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Duke of Windsor’s Pipes<ref name=sothebys>Sotheby's | [[File:DukeWindsor1pipeR.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Duke of Windsor’s Pipes<ref name=sothebys>Sotheby's Catalogue (September 1997). The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, "The Private Collections" & "The Public Collections". Published by Sotheby's. Provided by Guy Lesser.</ref> | ||
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*<span style="font-size:small">'''Note:''' Dunhill received it's first English Royal Warrant from Edward, Prince of Wales in 1921. Thereafter into the 1990s, a Royal Warrant has frequently been displayed in connection with pipes and pipe accessories (most notably pipe cases and tobacco tins) and can often be a useful dating tool<ref name=jcl28>Loring, J. C. (1998) The Dunhill Briar Pipe - The Patent Years and After (p. 60). Chicago: self-published.</ref>.</span><br> | *<span style="font-size:small">'''Note:''' Dunhill received it's first English Royal Warrant from Edward, Prince of Wales in 1921. Thereafter into the 1990s, a Royal Warrant has frequently been displayed in connection with pipes and pipe accessories (most notably pipe cases and tobacco tins) and can often be a useful dating tool<ref name=jcl28>Loring, J. C. (1998) The Dunhill Briar Pipe - The Patent Years and After (p. 60). Chicago: self-published.</ref>.</span><br> | ||
'''Addendum:''' The four badly abused Dunhills and the pipe rack (dated by Sotheby’s to the mid-1950s) were Duke of Windsor’s Pipes. Lot 3248 (estimate $400-600) was among the very last lots offered in Session Sixteen of the sale held here in New York on the afternoon of 18 September 1997 and fetched an impressive $4887 (rather a bargain in comparison with the next lot—a locking, four-drawer "cigar humidor” with much the same estimate that sold for $31,000)<ref name=sothebys>Sotheby's | '''Addendum:''' The four badly abused Dunhills and the pipe rack (dated by Sotheby’s to the mid-1950s) were Duke of Windsor’s Pipes. Lot 3248 (estimate $400-600) was among the very last lots offered in Session Sixteen of the sale held here in New York on the afternoon of 18 September 1997 and fetched an impressive $4887 (rather a bargain in comparison with the next lot—a locking, four-drawer "cigar humidor” with much the same estimate that sold for $31,000)<ref name=sothebys>Sotheby's Catalogue (September 1997). The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, "The Private Collections" & "The Public Collections". Published by Sotheby's. Provided by Guy Lesser.</ref> | ||
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*<font size="3">See more about curiosities here: '''[[Dunhill Curiosities]]'''</font><br> | *<font size="3">See more about curiosities here: '''[[Dunhill Curiosities]]'''</font><br> | ||