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<center><font size="3">[[File:Aspas-copy.png|40px]]'''To buy a Dunhill is to become a part of a club where recognition is achieved through subtle winks of the eye.[[File:Aspas.png|40px]]</font> Richard Dunhill<ref name=rd1>Eliane Georges, Gala (29 mai 2007). La saga Dunhill - les trésors d'une grande maison [PDF version]. France: Prisma Média (G+J Network)[https://pipedia.org/images/9/9c/La_saga_Dunhill_-_les_trésors_d%27une_grande_maison_-_Gala.pdf](Fr) & [https://pipedia.org/images/3/31/The_Dunhill_Saga.pdf](En)</ref>.'''</center> | <center><font size="3">[[File:Aspas-copy.png|40px]]'''To buy a Dunhill is to become a part of a club where recognition is achieved through subtle winks of the eye.[[File:Aspas.png|40px]]</font> Richard Dunhill<ref name=rd1>Eliane Georges, Gala (29 mai 2007). La saga Dunhill - les trésors d'une grande maison [PDF version]. France: Prisma Média (G+J Network)[https://pipedia.org/images/9/9c/La_saga_Dunhill_-_les_trésors_d%27une_grande_maison_-_Gala.pdf](Fr) & [https://pipedia.org/images/3/31/The_Dunhill_Saga.pdf](En)</ref>.'''</center> | ||
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While there are many opinions on who makes, or who made the best pipes, few would argue against Dunhill being the most recognized pipe brand, or that the founder, Alfred Dunhill, was not a marketing genius. In the preface to the second reprint of Dunhill's ''About Smoke, An Encyclopedia of Smoking", publisher Gary Schrier states the following: | While there are many opinions on who makes, or who made the best pipes, few would argue against Dunhill being the most recognized pipe brand, or that the founder, Alfred Dunhill, was not a marketing genius. In the preface to the second reprint of Dunhill's ''About Smoke, An Encyclopedia of Smoking", publisher Gary Schrier states the following: | ||
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<blockquote>'''''What Alfred Dunhill--son of a leather-harness and canvas-tarpaulin maker--created in 1907 when he opened his first tobacconist shop in Duke Street, London, was something extraordinary: he set a new standard for smoker's products of the finest quality, and he forged a new hallmark for exemplary customer service.'''''</blockquote> | <blockquote>'''''What Alfred Dunhill--son of a leather-harness and canvas-tarpaulin maker--created in 1907 when he opened his first tobacconist shop in Duke Street, London, was something extraordinary: he set a new standard for smoker's products of the finest quality, and he forged a new hallmark for exemplary customer service.'''''</blockquote> | ||