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'''67:''' an early '50s catalog shows lead covered compressed packs still being offered for the various popular blends. | '''67:''' an early '50s catalog shows lead covered compressed packs still being offered for the various popular blends. | ||
'''67:''' add and integrated into 'Tinned Tobacco' the following: | |||
The key year for Dunhill tobacco is 1981 when production of most Dunhill tobacco blends was shifted from Dunhill to Murray in Northern Ireland (at the time both Dunhill and Murray were subsidiaries of the same parent company). While the blends remained of very fine quality, distinct differences were immediately apparent, I suspect from Murray's use of younger tobacco and probably some recipe changes due to the unavailability of some tobacco varieties. The only exception to the Murray transition were the My Mixture blends (other than 965). The My Mixture blends (other than 965), were, (and are) available only from the London Duke Street shop. Those blends apparently continued to be blended in house for some time, and today are produced for the Duke Street shop by a small batch blender in London. | |||
*'20s - '60s: During this period the 'knife lid' was the primary tin style. In the '50s some 'coin twist' tins were introduced with a decade long, transition9 from the 4 ounce 'knife lid' to a 4 ounce 'coin twist' starting in the early '60s. These 4 ounce 'coin twists' are often called 'tall boys' because they were the same circumference as the 2 ounce 'coin twist' tins, just twice as high. Not all tins during these five decades were imprinted with the packaging weight but when they were it was only in ounces. Closer dating may generally be arrived at through the royal crest that appears on most tins. A Prince of Wales Crest dates from 1921 to 1936; a George VI Crest with a reference to the King dates from 1936 to 1953; a George VI Crest with no reference to the King dates to 1954; a George VI Crest with reference to the late King dates from 1954 to 1962; and an Elizabeth II Crest dates from 1963 to 1995. In addition tins from the WWII era bore a small reference to war time packaging requirements. | |||
*'70s: 'Coin twist' tins were used exclusively during the '70s in the 2 ounce, 4 ounce 'tall boy', and 8 ounce sizes and as in prior years generally were labeled with words to the effect that the tobacco was been blended 'by Dunhill' in 'England' (or prior to the '70s often 'Great Britain'). Although I don't believe I have ever seen any according to a Dunhill wholesale export catalogue apparently beginning in 1975 or 1976 Dunhill also offered export versions of its tins in 25, 50 and 100gm sizes. | |||
*Early '80s: The last of the 'in house' Dunhill production, ending in 1981, was packaged in 'coin twists' tins with 'painted' labels showing weight in either fractional ounces only, e.g. 1 3/4 or 3 1/2, or in both fractional ounces and grams with, in either case, the country of origin labeled as 'England'. Sometime in 1981 production of standard brands (but other then 965, not the My Mixtures) was taken over by Murray. These tins may be identified by their paper (rather than 'painted') label which, for the first time, generally indicated the country of origin as being the 'United Kingdom' (I have seen a few paper label Murray tins with 'England'). In addition, distinctively, the now 3 1/2 ounce/100 gram 'tall boy' tin style was flattened resulting in the tin having a noticeably larger circumference than its 1 3/4 ounce/50 gram counterpart. | |||
*Mid to Late '80s: Murray changed back to painted labeling within a few years, these tins however, may be easily distinguished from earlier Dunhill production in that the Murray tins uniformly label the country of origin as the 'United Kingdom'. | |||
*'90s: In about 1990 the Murry blended tobacco label was changed to show that it was manufactured under the authority of Dunhill. In 1995 the Elizabeth II Crest was deleted from the tins and 'authority' was changed to 'in association' with Dunhill. | |||
In short (and with some generalization): | |||
'Association' or 'authority' equals Murray / '90s; | |||
'United Kingdom' equals Murray / '80s - '90s; | |||
Paper label 'coin twist' standard blends equals Murray / early '80s; | |||
Fractional or dual weight painted 'coin twists' made in 'England' equal Dunhill/early '80s; | |||
Whole ounces, or tall boy 'coin twists' equals Dunhill / '70s - '60s; and | |||
'Knife-lid' equals Dunhill / '60s or earlier. | |||
'''69:''' Dunhill also offered packages of 'unhinged' windscreens made out of "genuine asbestos". | |||
'''74:''' typo - line three on the first chart should be "Importing". | |||
BackCover & Center Chart: typo - in the finish portion of the chart: "Country" should by "County". | |||
At Numerous Places: "it's" used in the possessive sense should be "its" and "then" used in a comparative sense should be "than". | |||
'''Danish Style Pipes:''' Beginning in the mid '70s Dunhill offered large danish style pipes typically with plateau briar bowl rims and fancy military vulcanite bits. These pipes were usual hand stamped with some variations but usually included "S/G F/T" "DUNHILL" (arched) "ROOT BRIAR" "MADE IN ENGLAND" followed by a date stamp. While these pipes may have been finished in the Dunhill factory they were probably carved in Denmark. The briar tends to be darker then the usual root briar pipe suggesting that the briar for these pipes was sourced independently. | |||
NEWLY REPORTED STAMPS: 1957 Carved Head Root - a "C/H" where the shape number is usually found; 1956 & 1958 (possibly 1968) Root - an "SP" underneath the Circled Group Size/Finish code; 1984 a stacked double bowl (to prevent 'wet' smoking) - an "HPL/28" where the shape number is usually found. Also "HT" which means hand turned & is used on pipes whose shapes do not fall within the standard number codes ; 1937 bruyere 113 - "JW" below LONDON and also after patent number (may indicate a 'short' churchwarden); "W" on and indicating a bamboo shanked pipe (while bamboo shanks are primarily a post WWII phenomena, they have been found on pipes dating to as early as 1939); A 1962 shape 56 shell with a "PARKER" stamp as follows: "EX. 56 F/T -8 DUNHILL SHELL BRIAR PARKER MADE IN ENGLAND 2 (4)S". | |||
FINISHES: Tanshell, County & Russet apparently have been discontinued in the past few years and Root is largly unavailable but not I believe officially discontinued. "Black Briar" as well as "Dress" may have been stamped as late as 1982 and Ring Grain as well as "Shilling" as late as 1995. Note that in early 1970's Dunhill catalogues shape 320 (a group 4 oval bowled pipe) was referred to as its "Evening Dress Shape" with a white band on the bit where it meets the shank, in both the shell finish and the black smooth finish. | |||
OTHER BOWL MATERIALS: Dunhill has offered meerschaum pipes since inception, most probably at all times these pipes, other then perhaps the bit, were made by others and other then a white dot on the bit of the pipes after the mid teens apparently never bore any Dunhill nomenclature. Probably also from inception Dunhill offered but likely did not make meerschaum lined Calabash pipes, bearing a white dot bit and occationally an 'AD' mounted band. In at least the 1960's and 1970's and probably before and after Dunhill also offered meerschaum lined briar pipes usually, if not always in the Shell finish. These pipes were undoubtedly fully made by Dunhill. Again in the 1960's and 1970's and perhaps before and after Dunhill offered briar billiard bowl pipes of its making with the bowls covered in leather. | |||
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