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Created page with "Dunhill a toujours été un synonyme mondial de qualité en matière de pipe. Une bonne partie de ce jugement de valeur, je crois, tient au procédé unique de l'oil curing”..."
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“Cette pipe a du caractère. Envoyez-la en Amérique. Les Américains savent reconnaître les bonnes pipes!”
“Cette pipe a du caractère. Envoyez-la en Amérique. Les Américains savent reconnaître les bonnes pipes!”


The Dunhill pipe has always been synonymous with the word quality in pipe making. Much of this value judgment, I feel, has to do with the firm's unique "oil curing" process invented by Alfred Dunhill. This process, in my estimation, does three things - it makes the tobacco taste unusually "nutty"; it has a very low rate of bowl "burn-out" compared with other makes; and, it helps the pipe to smoke well even after many years. This process is still very closely guarded by the firm and is not normally shown to visitors. I was shown the process because I brought a copy of the original patent with me and specifically raised the issue.
Dunhill a toujours été un synonyme mondial de qualité en matière de pipe. Une bonne partie de ce jugement de valeur, je crois, tient au procédé unique de l'oil curing” inventé par Alfred Dunhill. Ce procédé, à mon sens, a trois effets – il donne au tabac un goût extraordinaire de noisette; il a un très faible taux de brûlure (“burn-out”) du fourneau, par rapport à d'autres fabricants; et il aide la pipe à bien fumer, même après de nombreuses années. Ce procédé est encore très soigneusement gardé par l'entreprise et normalement n'est pas montré aux visiteurs. On m'a montré le procédé car j'avais apporté avec moi une copie du brevet original et spécialement abordé ce sujet.


In order to discern quality in a pipe, one has to look at only a few things (of course much of the real judgment is in the smoking): the turned and bored bowl; the shank bore; the tenon/ferrule connection; the lip of the mouthpiece; the look and feel of the finish. Dunhill, I submit, has as high a standard of quality as it has ever had. This does not mean that every Dunhill released for sale, today, is a perfect pipe, for some are not! What it does mean is that the percentage of imperfect Dunhills is no greater today than, say, 1924. I have discovered two imperfect pipes in my 1920-1927 collection.
In order to discern quality in a pipe, one has to look at only a few things (of course much of the real judgment is in the smoking): the turned and bored bowl; the shank bore; the tenon/ferrule connection; the lip of the mouthpiece; the look and feel of the finish. Dunhill, I submit, has as high a standard of quality as it has ever had. This does not mean that every Dunhill released for sale, today, is a perfect pipe, for some are not! What it does mean is that the percentage of imperfect Dunhills is no greater today than, say, 1924. I have discovered two imperfect pipes in my 1920-1927 collection.
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