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[[File:Alfredmachine.jpg|thumb|right|200px| Alfred and his machine, Adolphus - courtesy Jon Guss.]] | [[File:Alfredmachine.jpg|thumb|right|200px| Alfred and his machine, Adolphus - courtesy Jon Guss.]] | ||
Loring defended on his book that between 1907 and March 1910 (before factory) all pipes come fully manufactured | Loring defended on his book that between 1907 and March 1910 (before factory) all pipes come fully manufactured (most probably) in France out of varnished Algerian briar, | ||
<blockquote><q>These third party made pipes initially carried in the Duke Street shop in 1907 were given shape numbers running from 1 through 30, with shapes 1 and 3 being copied by Dunhill in 1985 for its seventy-fifth anniversary of pipe making set. I do not presently know how these 1907 pipes were stamped but if I were to hazard a guess it would be DUNHILL over DUKE ST. S.W. on one side with the shape number either on that side or the reverse. <br><br>In 1909 Dunhill began an in-house pipe repair business and a year later, in March 1910 expanded to a two-man pipe making operation primarily using bowls shaped in France.</q> '''Loring''', J. C., The Dunhill Briar Pipe, The Patent Years and After (self-published, Chicago, 1998)</blockquote> | <blockquote><q>These third party made pipes initially carried in the Duke Street shop in 1907 were given shape numbers running from 1 through 30, with shapes 1 and 3 being copied by Dunhill in 1985 for its seventy-fifth anniversary of pipe making set. I do not presently know how these 1907 pipes were stamped but if I were to hazard a guess it would be DUNHILL over DUKE ST. S.W. on one side with the shape number either on that side or the reverse. <br><br>In 1909 Dunhill began an in-house pipe repair business and a year later, in March 1910 expanded to a two-man pipe making operation primarily using bowls shaped in France.</q> '''Loring''', J. C., The Dunhill Briar Pipe, The Patent Years and After (self-published, Chicago, 1998)</blockquote> | ||