Translations:WWII Phase/2/en
In another rare image (left), courtesy of our friend Jonathan Guss, we have a clipping of a magazine that says:
Mr. Alfred H. Dunhill holding a fragment from the wreckage of the shop in Duke Street, St. Jame's in London, that was founded by his father. Tobacco in February told the romantic story of the shop which "a spacious, and gracious, place of bright, light woods and beveled glass" was ruined by Hitler's airmen in a night raid.
Magazine clipping of Alfred H. Dunhill, holding a fragment, courtesy Johnathan Guss.
Henry Dunhill selling pipes amidst in the rubble.
The Second World War was a difficult time. Rationing due to the war was so drastic that Dunhill suffered from the scarcity of raw material until the beginning of the 1950s, several years into the post-war period.
Dunhill published catalogs annually, even during the First World War with each catalog being more elegant than the last. There were no catalogs between 1940 and 1950. however, with the exception of two. These were catalogs of "gifts", distributed in North America circa 1943, and in Great Britain at the end of the 1940s.