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 === John C. Loring Articles ===
-'''Note:''' John Loring's website is currently down. His son, Michael Loring, reports that he is working to get the site back up and will be continuing to make it available. John Loring, now a "broken pipe" was a leading authority on Dunhill pipes. His excellent book, "The Dunhill Briar Pipe - the patent years and after" [http://www.loringpage.com/attpipes/book.html], is an essential addition to any Dunhill collectors library. Mr. Loring also wrote several important articles, which he has graciously contributed to Pipedia, and will be added here:
+John Loring, now a "broken pipe", was a leading authority on Dunhill pipes. His excellent book, "The Dunhill Briar Pipe - the patent years and after", is an essential addition to any Dunhill collector's library. Sadly, John Loring's website is down. His son, Michael Loring had hoped to get the site back up, but that appears unlikely at this point. In addition to the Dunhill Briar Pipe, Loring wrote several important articles, which he had graciously allowed Pipedia to publish. Some made it here before his website disappeared. Very thankfully, several others have been contributed by Jean-Christophe Bienfait, who has also translated them into French:
-'''Dunhill's guarantee''' is generally credited as the impetus for implementing the date codes, as well as establishing its reputation. Dunhill expert, John C. Loring has written an excellent article on the establishment and refinement of the [[THE DUNHILL WHITE SPOT GUARANTEE]].
+* '''[[THE DUNHILL WHITE SPOT GUARANTEE]] -- Dunhill's guarantee''' is generally credited as the impetus for implementing the date codes, as well as establishing its reputation. Dunhill expert, John C. Loring has written an excellent article on the establishment and refinement of the.
-[[Musing On Bits]]:  "Dunhill’s ‘push’ bit while not invented by Dunhill may well have been an important reason for its early success."
+*'''[[Musing On Bits]]''':  "Dunhill’s ‘push’ bit while not invented by Dunhill may well have been an important reason for its early success."
-'''''More excellent Loring articles coming soon!''''' For now they are still available on the author's [http://loringpage.com/pipearticles/pipearticles.htm website].
+*'''[[A Hypothetical WWII Pipe]]'''
+*'''[[In Search of the First Shell]]'''
+*'''[[Grading the Pre World War II Dunhill Bruyere DR]]'''
+'''''We hope to uncover find more Loring articles. If you know where we can find any we're missing, please send them to sethile.pipes@gmail.com'''''
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