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<center>'''A personal | <center>'''A personal letter from Alfred H. Dunhill. August 1939.'''</center> | ||
(The Dunhill’s letter looks quite typical of what authors routinely send to a shortlist of acquaintances when a book they’ve written has just been published). | (The Dunhill’s letter looks quite typical of what authors routinely send to a shortlist of acquaintances when a book they’ve written has just been published). | ||
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</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> | </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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*<font size="3">See more date tins here: '''[[DATING ENGLISH TINNED TOBACCO]]'''</font> | *<font size="3">See more date tins here: '''[[DATING ENGLISH TINNED TOBACCO]]'''</font> | ||
*<font size="3">See our Tins Gallery here: '''[[Dunhill Tins Gallery]]'''</font> | *<font size="3">See our Tins Gallery here: '''[[Dunhill Tins Gallery]]'''</font> | ||
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[[File:Mymixturecover.jpg|noline|left|150px|My Mixture Tobaccos]] | |||
'''Hand Blended Tobaccos List'''<br>At first, the focus was on tobaccos. As he defined in his first catalog, published in 1910, called "About Smoke", he was an expert in making blends, which he exhibited prominently in his entry window: "Tobacco specialist" '''See more about it''' [https://pipedia.org/images/e/ee/Dunhill_Handblended_Tobaccos.pdf here]. | |||
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<font size="2">'''Addendum:''' As Arno van Goor reports in his article, "De Graaff tobacconist" (published in 2018), at some point, Dunhill also made blends for others. In The Netherlands was a tobacconist named "De Graaf". They had excellent house-blends but were discontinued at the end of the 1990s, early 2000s. These De Graaf mixtures were produced by Dunhill at the Dunhill Duke Street shop. (After the first transition, Dunhill Duke Street shop continued to offer custom blending for the next two decades and as part of that continuation, a small batch blender in London continued to produce a number of My Mixture blends, available only from the Duke Street shop).<ref name=arno>Goor, van Arno (2018). De Graaff tobacconist. Dutch Pipe Smoker, Retrieved April 2020 from [https://dutchpipesmoker.com/2018/08/28/de-graaff-tobacconist/?fbclid=IwAR3IJD1N4A7iOMuHrg6Z2zoxLSwt9fXgrmHKmtlLGzjRf-R4aNqffyyRJRU dutchpipesmoker.com]</ref></font> | <font size="2">'''Addendum:''' As Arno van Goor reports in his article, "De Graaff tobacconist" (published in 2018), at some point, Dunhill also made blends for others. In The Netherlands was a tobacconist named "De Graaf". They had excellent house-blends but were discontinued at the end of the 1990s, early 2000s. These De Graaf mixtures were produced by Dunhill at the Dunhill Duke Street shop. (After the first transition, Dunhill Duke Street shop continued to offer custom blending for the next two decades and as part of that continuation, a small batch blender in London continued to produce a number of My Mixture blends, available only from the Duke Street shop).<ref name=arno>Goor, van Arno (2018). De Graaff tobacconist. Dutch Pipe Smoker, Retrieved April 2020 from [https://dutchpipesmoker.com/2018/08/28/de-graaff-tobacconist/?fbclid=IwAR3IJD1N4A7iOMuHrg6Z2zoxLSwt9fXgrmHKmtlLGzjRf-R4aNqffyyRJRU dutchpipesmoker.com]</ref></font> | ||
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<font size="2">'''Addendum+:''' In 1953, Carreras acquired the assets of R & J Hill Limited of London and the entire share capital of Murray, Sons & Company Limited of Belfast who was manufacturing a fine range of popular pipe tobaccos, including Erinmore Mixture and Erinmore Flake. In 1954 the Rembrandt Tobacco Company acquired a controlling interest in Rothmans. Rembrandt was expanding and in 1958 acquired Carreras (the Carreras company it was an independent company until November 1958, when it merged with Rembrandt). 1961 the business had expanded to the point where Carreras had acquired the Rothmans cigarette and tobacco business in Britain and some of its overseas markets. As a result of this deal, the biggest shareholder in the enlarged operation became Rothmans Tobacco (Holdings).<ref name=CigaretteB>Harrald, Chris; Watkins, Fletcher (2010). The Cigarette Book: The History and Culture of Smoking. Skyhorse Publishing Inc.</ref> The Carreras Group acquired 50% of Dunhill's capital in 1967<ref name=balfourchronology>Balfour, Michael. (1992). Alfred Dunhill, One Hundred Years and More (pp. 234-236). London, Weidenfield and Nicolson.</ref>. Carreras Rothmans Ltd was formed in 1972 when Carreras Limited was used as the vehicle for the merger of various European tobacco interests to form Rothmans International. In 1988, the Rembrandt group founded the Swiss luxury goods company, Richemont, which in turn acquired Rembrandt's shares in Rothmans.</font> | <font size="2">'''Addendum+:''' In 1953, Carreras acquired the assets of R & J Hill Limited of London and the entire share capital of Murray, Sons & Company Limited of Belfast who was manufacturing a fine range of popular pipe tobaccos, including Erinmore Mixture and Erinmore Flake. In 1954 the Rembrandt Tobacco Company acquired a controlling interest in Rothmans. Rembrandt was expanding and in 1958 acquired Carreras (the Carreras company it was an independent company until November 1958, when it merged with Rembrandt). 1961 the business had expanded to the point where Carreras had acquired the Rothmans cigarette and tobacco business in Britain and some of its overseas markets. As a result of this deal, the biggest shareholder in the enlarged operation became Rothmans Tobacco (Holdings).<ref name=CigaretteB>Harrald, Chris; Watkins, Fletcher (2010). The Cigarette Book: The History and Culture of Smoking. Skyhorse Publishing Inc.</ref> The Carreras Group acquired 50% of Dunhill's capital in 1967<ref name=balfourchronology>Balfour, Michael. (1992). Alfred Dunhill, One Hundred Years and More (pp. 234-236). London, Weidenfield and Nicolson.</ref>. Carreras Rothmans Ltd was formed in 1972 when Carreras Limited was used as the vehicle for the merger of various European tobacco interests to form Rothmans International. In 1988, the Rembrandt group founded the Swiss luxury goods company, Richemont, which in turn acquired Rembrandt's shares in Rothmans.</font> | ||
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'''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> | '''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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<center>'''A personal letter between Alfred H. Dunhill and Edward, Duke of Windsor. May 1957.'''</center> | |||
(Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year). | |||
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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> | ||
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== Black Briar & Dress == <!--T:318--> | == Black Briar & Dress == <!--T:318--> | ||
[[File:Blackbriar.jpg|thumb|right|145px|Black Briar or Dress]] | [[File:Blackbriar.jpg|thumb|right|145px|Black Briar or Dress]] | ||
'''Black Briar''' is a smooth dark finish with vein contrasted in black introduced in | '''Black Briar''' is a smooth dark finish with vein contrasted in black introduced in 1970 and renamed the DRESS in 1979. | ||
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'''Dress''' - introduced in 1979. The Dress is a black smooth finish designed to look elegant with a tux or other formal ware - refined and sophisticated. A smooth jet-black stain with a silver band and a black mouthpiece that give to this line of pipes the distinctive elegance that has come to be associated with the Dunhill name. | '''Dress''' - introduced in 1979. The Dress is a black smooth finish designed to look elegant with a tux or other formal ware - refined and sophisticated. A smooth jet-black stain with a silver band and a black mouthpiece that give to this line of pipes the distinctive elegance that has come to be associated with the Dunhill name. | ||
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<font size="3">Some catalogs filled with great pictures of pipes, cigars ([[Dunhill Cigars]]), humidors, lighters, cigarette holders, clocks, and other accessories.'''</font> | <font size="3">Some catalogs filled with great pictures of pipes, cigars ([[Dunhill Cigars]]), humidors, lighters, cigarette holders, clocks, and other accessories.'''</font> | ||
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== A Tale of Two Briars == | == A Tale of Two Briars == | ||
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