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|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;height:50px; width:70px;"|<center>DR - A.</center>
|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;height:50px; width:70px;"|<center>DR - A</center>
|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;height:50px; width:120px;"|<center>'''Dunhill <br>Duke ST. S. W.'''</center>
|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;height:50px; width:120px;"|<center>'''Dunhill <br>Duke ST. S. W.'''</center>
|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;height:50px; width:70px;"|<center>1-30</center>
|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;height:50px; width:70px;"|<center>1-30</center>
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! scope="row" style="border: 1px solid #7B241C; height:50px; width:70px;"|1915-OCT 1918 (for export - US)
! scope="row" style="border: 1px solid #7B241C; height:50px; width:70px;"|1915-OCT 1918 (for export - US)
|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;"|<center>DR - A</center>
|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;"|<center>DR - A.</center>
|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;"|<center>'''Dunhill <br>Duke ST. S. W.'''</center>
|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;"|<center>'''Dunhill <br>Duke ST. S. W.'''</center>
|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;"|<center>"Inner Tube"<br>PATENTED MARCH.9.15<br> or 1130806/15</center>
|style="border: 1px solid #7B241C;"|<center>"Inner Tube"<br>PATENTED MARCH.9.15<br> or 1130806/15</center>
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*From 1910 through October 1918 Dunhill branded its pipes with DUNHILL over DUKE ST. S.W. (After this period, only in special editions, as the anniversary versions (75 years in 1985 and 100 years in 2007) which reproduces Dunhill pipes made in 1910.
*From 1910 through October 1918 Dunhill branded its pipes with DUNHILL over DUKE ST. S.W. (After this period, only in special editions, as the anniversary versions (75 years in 1985 and 100 years in 2007) which reproduce Dunhill pipes made in 1910.


*Prior to 1923 the Bruyere "A"s are found both circled and uncircled, thereafter the "A" is uniformly uncircled. The uncircled "A" both before and after 1923 is sometimes followed by either a round or square subscript 'stop' (i.e o or []) or with a number below.
*Prior to 1923 the Bruyere "A"s are found both circled and uncircled, thereafter the "A" is uniformly uncircled. The uncircled "A" both before and after 1923 is sometimes followed by either a round or square subscript 'stop' (i.e o or []) or with a number below.
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*From June 1918 through October 1918 a small round subscript 'stop', like this "o" was added immediately following the "A", that generally was stamped to the left of DUNHILL (Before that, they were aleatory and sometimes more than one, as you can see in the first figure above).
*From June 1918 through October 1918 a small round subscript 'stop', like this "o" was added immediately following the "A", that generally was stamped to the left of DUNHILL (Before that, they were aleatory and sometimes more than one, as you can see in the first figure above).


*End of 1918. In the last few months of 1918 Dunhill changed the DUKE ST S. W. stamping to LONDON.
*End of 1918. In the last few months of 1918, Dunhill changed the DUKE ST S. W. stamping to LONDON.


*About Shell. For instance if a pipe exists with the English 5861/12 patent together with patent pending language it could be comfortably dated to 1917. Pipes do exist with the MAR.9.15 US patent reference together with PAT. APP FOR, but these pipes date from 1918 - 1920.
*About Shell. For instance, if a pipe exists with the English 5861/12 patent together with patent-pending language it could be comfortably dated to 1917. Pipes do exist with the MAR.9.15 US patent reference together with PAT. APP FOR, but these pipes date from 1918 - 1920.