Pipedia Dunhill Dating Guide: Difference between revisions

<span style="color:#800000">['''1904/05 up to early-20s*''']</span> The first wind-shield pipes were patented in 1904 and sold from 1904/05 onwards, while Alfred Dunhill operated his “Dunhill's Motorities business. The Duke Street tobacconist store did not exist yet, it only opened in 1907. Therefore, those early pipes were stamped on the shank with '''DUNHILL’s over PATENT (patent number App 25261)'''.

* <span style="font-size:small">*The windshield was marketed for many years and was still available in 1928 About Smoke catalog. However, this patent must have been used until the early 20s (before the date code), as some pipes were sold in the United States in the early 1920s had only the inner tube patent.