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'''THE 1980S FAKE DUNHILL © JOHN C LORING''': ''used by permission''<br> | '''THE 1980S FAKE DUNHILL © JOHN C LORING''': ''used by permission''<br> | ||
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Traditionally, this has not been the choice of most who rather have preferred to smoke and enjoy the fake unblemished and if they tire of it, trade it way to another trusted collector with full disclosure. The problem as I see it, is that sometimes trusted collectors are not so trustworthy; that sometimes when times get hard and our families are at stake, neither you nor I are so trustworthy; and sometimes when we unexpectedly depart this world our families have no idea that one of our favorite pipes is a fake. And so with all the good intentions in the world we look back (down or up) to discover that we have perpetuated the quarter of a century old fraud. Thus I respectfully submit that just as we owe it to our neighbors not to house a tiger that could get loose despite our best efforts, so too we owe it to our fellow collectors to brand the remaining 1980s fakes, least they get ‘loose’, while we enjoy them for the fine pipes that they are and the interesting history they represent. | Traditionally, this has not been the choice of most who rather have preferred to smoke and enjoy the fake unblemished and if they tire of it, trade it way to another trusted collector with full disclosure. The problem as I see it, is that sometimes trusted collectors are not so trustworthy; that sometimes when times get hard and our families are at stake, neither you nor I are so trustworthy; and sometimes when we unexpectedly depart this world our families have no idea that one of our favorite pipes is a fake. And so with all the good intentions in the world we look back (down or up) to discover that we have perpetuated the quarter of a century old fraud. Thus I respectfully submit that just as we owe it to our neighbors not to house a tiger that could get loose despite our best efforts, so too we owe it to our fellow collectors to brand the remaining 1980s fakes, least they get ‘loose’, while we enjoy them for the fine pipes that they are and the interesting history they represent. | ||
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