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Brindles have a cumberland (aka "Brindle") stem, streaked red/brown, rather than black ebonite (or Ashtonite whatever that was).

I've got a pre-war Ruff Root Oom Paul, so 30s for sure, but earlier? Yeah I don't know, or if I did know, I've forgotten.

That's pretty good for Peterson.  :twisted: 

Uh, yeah, really.  There's Castellos out there with no shape number (I have one), I have a Savinelli that says Ita and I thought maybe this was the maker's name but now I think that maybe, just maybe, it's short for Italy, but it wasn't stamped right.   My Radice Underwood is stamped "Bark"...

I can't imagine an Italian manufacturer being able to stamp all of its pipes completely or correctly. It just seems beyond them. I do know that Savinelli has made autographs in other "dresses", like the Mr G finish with the gold band, and they stamp these as such. But the 2n I have never...

Well... now you know what that seller is like. They'll sell whatever and hope that someone will be too lazy to return the poor quality item. Sucks, and it would be enough that I'd never buy from them again, but that's their choice I suppose.

Cherrywood to me. I take it that poker is a more general term for a flat-bottomed pipe it seems, and a Cherrywood shape is a type of poker pipe. The Cherrywood name surely derives, as noted above, from the Ropp type pipe, two individual pieces of branch intersecting.

The stem simply has two separate holes in a V instead of the usual slot arrangement at the button. No magic.

I've seen newer dunhills, a few years ago, that were pretty shoddy in construction. Slot not lined up at the end of the stem, poor stem/shank transitions.... just quickly-made looking. So it does happen once in awhile.

Savinelli makes some great pipes, I like how mine smoke too.

And this is another way to say it too.

Let me rephrase my post with more direct response to the O.P. intent. I collect and smoke the pipes I do, and KEEP the pipes I do because they are superior performers, offering easier smoking, better taste, no gurgling, etc than other pipes. I have to like what they look like, but that's...

Let me answer as a "serious" collector for a moment (most of you know just how serious I'm NOT, but let's play). One of the things I've noticed is that most of you have no idea what a pipe is supposed to taste like, or how it should smoke. If I allowed you to smoke one of my "brand name"...

There is indeed no single straightforward answer here. In general, if you blast birdseye, you get a moon-crater or webbed looking surface, it's possible to see individual little pits sometimes, just little soft areas that get scooped out. Mostly, sandblasting takes an existing flaw and...

I got Aesthete's Foot once when I was playing a lot of football.

They are very good pipes. I have a "Ruff Root" 8 dot marked "Cowes" and it's an excellent smoker.

That sounds like a pretty old pipe, pre WW2 I think, given what you are saying about the stamps. The town names "Chester" etc were discontinued a long time ago. http://murderofravens.org/my-sasieni-pipe-article/ So I'd say post 1935 and pre 1945?

Learn proper pipe smoking technique and this problem will go away. Get a tin of Mac Baren's "Mixture". When you can smoke that without blowing your tongue up or having a glowing pipe, you have understood how to smoke everything else. I'm serious! :cheers: 

Bizarre. Sounds like water boiling out of the briar but there's no reason an established maker should be using briar that wet.

That Dunnie is a super nice piece of wood. Very, very finely grained. 6000 bucks worth? Well, someone thinks so.