Translations:Pipedia Dunhill Dating Guide/228/en

Earliest Shell

The documented history of the Shell’s beginnings is essentially limited to patent applications – there are no catalog page or advertisement birth announcements.



 
Dunhill.London, Loring©


  • DUNHILL'S "SHELL BRIAR" and the second "PAT. No. 5861/12" (the inner tube patent) and possibly "PAT.PENDING" or similar language referring to the pending sandblast patent, it could be comfortably dated to 1917.