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==Earliest Shell== | |||
[[File:InSearchOfTheFirstShell2.jpeg|thumb|120px|Dunhill.London, Loring©]] | |||
* DUNHILL'S "SHELL BRIAR" and the second "PAT. No. 5861/12" (the inner tube patent) and possibly "PAT.PENDING" or similar language referring to the pending sandblast patent, it could be comfortably dated to 1917. | |||
* To September/October 1918 when the US Patent application was being prepared and filed, for the nomenclature refers to that application: '''U.S.A. PAT / APPLD FOR''' but differs considerably from that later and consistently found: '''PAT. MAR.9.15 / PAT.APP FOR'''. Similarly the DUNHILL.LONDON / “SHELL BRIAR” stamping is unique as the uniform stamping through the mid-1930s is DUNHILL’S “SHELL” MADE IN ENGLAND or DUNHILL’S “SHELL BRIAR” on one or two lines and never in any other known case a non-possessive DUNHILL or a LONDON. | |||
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