Translations:THE DUNHILL WHITE SPOT GUARANTEE/32/en

(i) “A DUNHILL

           DUKE ST S.W. “ without a round ‘stop’(i.e. a ‘o’) after the “A” indicating 1910 – May,  
           1918;
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(ii) with an added stop after the A (i.e. “Ao”) indicating June, 1918 – October, 1918; 
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(iii)    “ DUNHILL
           LONDON “ (both words of equal length) indicating November and December 1918;
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(iv) an arched “DUNHILL” indicating 1919 (with LONDON within the arch indicating the first half of 
     that year and even with the arch ends  indicating the second half);
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(v)       “DUNHILL
           LONDON “ (LONDON being shorter the DUNHILL) indicating 1920; and
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(vi) the “D” of DUNHILL having tails (the arch of the “D” extending past the vertical stroke)   
     indicating 1921 (and with a “2” numeric date code, 1922).

I recall when I first saw this surviving remnant briefly wondering why the card existed at all given that at the time I accepted the general understanding that Dunhill’s White Spot Guarantee was implemented in 1921. Then too as I tracked the Dunhill pipe stamping changes in the 1918 – 1921 period, I recall wondering why there were so many innocuous changes, especially given that from 1910 through 1917 the pipe stamping had been consistently stable. Assuming a 1921 White Spot Guarantee implementation I concluded that the stampings changes were simply random indications of an unpredictable post war period, later recollected when the White Spot Guarantee was implemented.