OK, who's gonna break the piggy bank for this one?

[Puff Daddy]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Alfred-Dunhill-DR-G-Straight-Grain-/220602983017?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item335cf66269

 

[Anonymous]

"Not I," said the little red hen.

:face:

 

[Frost]

Definately not me...lol. That seller does have some nice pipes though. I like this one in particular, and at approx 1/3rd the price of the dunny it almost seems like a bargain:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Jess-Chonowitsch-Freehand-Lumberman-/220598616937?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Tabakwaren_Zippos_Pfeifen&hash=item335cb3c369

 

[pipetongue1]

I already have one! :tongue: Ken

 

[Midnight Blues]

I could buy a lifetime supply of Uhle's Perfection Plug for what that pipe will sell for.
Nice pipe but it doesn't knock me out.

 

[Puff Daddy]

It's purely for the collectors eye, the guys with $$$ and a penchant for rare things. I've seen grain just as fine on $800 Castellos - let an estate Le Catene slip through my fingers when I paused to think about the $500 price tag and someone else snatched it up, one of the pipes that still haunts me. My take on it (the DR G) is that the value is forced just because it's made by who it's made by and the rarity of the grading. It is a fine pipe and worth every bit of a thousand dollars, but not 10 grand plus (although I certainly don't begrudge or belittle the fellow who does value it at it's present sale point, I just don't see it that way personally).

It is a pretty pipe though, some gorgeous cascading ring grain

 

[puros_bran]

I'd give $40 maybe $50

 

[Winslow]

Well PB,it does say make an offer....make them a $50 offer and see what they say.
Let us know what happens. :lol:

Winslow :sunny:

 

[puros_bran]

Well, I was really just talking junk.. I only have $14.. With my luck they'd take it, and I'd be sued for breech of contract...lol

 

[Puff Daddy]

You have $14? You're ahead of the game in this economy.

 

[puros_bran]

Well I only ate two packs of crackers last week, hence the big roll.

 

[Puff Daddy]

Hey, after taxes that's an ounce of good tobacco and a bic lighter

 

[Anonymous]

At the risk of (maybe needlessly) stirring "stuff" up, if it were a masterpiece creation from the hand of Carlo Scotti himself, at the height of his artistic mastery, I could maybe see money like that for it.

But for Pete's sake -- it's a freaking French factory-turned stummel that was polished, stemmed and marketed by Dunhill.

Then again, in the words of a friend's wife (in incredulous response to having declined her offer of a bowl of ice cream) "But this isn't ice cream. It's Haagen Daas !"

Live & Learn

:face:

 

[Puff Daddy]

$1,000.00 for the pipe, another $10,000.00 for the nomenclature.

Dunhill Root briars regularly sell for about 40 - 50% more than Castello "Castello" grade pipes (quality is about the same between the two grades) but the Fiamata and the DR can be pretty close to the same (until you get into the ***'s and added letter grades to the 'Root"). The former is absurd in terms of getting what you pay for, basically you're paying for the Dunhill name even though the "Castello" is every bit as good for half as much. I'd still take a Fiamata over a DR for $1,000, but that's just my own preference and I can see the value of that $1,000 DR. When you start paying into the stratosphere for those **'s and letters, you're buying the Dunhill highchurch aura and really nothing more. If that's your thing, that's cool, I won't knock it other than to say it's out of my range so, like Breguet watches, I don't spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get one (although I always drool over the Breguets and I do look at them, they're freakin gorgeous). I've actually been lucky enough to handle several ultra high grade Dunhills, including a DR G. I respected the value of it, but I've also handled some Fiamatas that so totally blew that DR G out of the water (at 20% the cost) that it wasn't even close.

But, to each his own. I'd hope that whoever buys that sucker smokes it and enjoys it.

What the hell, let's stir it up! :twisted:

 

[mark]

FREE SHIPPING,,,,that's a deal clincher if ever I saw one,,,,, :shock:


I just checked the color of my collar again,,,it's still BLUE, so I'm in no position to pass judgement or comment,so I'll refrain from carefully constructing an unqualified meaningless rant, and light up my faithful corncob.

 

[Jack Straw]

FREE SHIPPING,,,,that's a deal clincher if ever I saw one,,,,, :shock:

Thanks for the big laugh.

 

[Puff Daddy]

I just checked the color of my collar again,,,it's still BLUE, so I'm in no position to pass judgement or comment,so I'll refrain from carefully constructing an unqualified meaningless rant.

Since when did any of that matter? C'mon, don't be a spoil sport! :bball:

If you've owned at least one Dunhill, handled several, and did your homework, you're entitled to an opinion :cheers: My own experience is limited to having owned a half dozen from the 60's and 70's and looked over quite a few fine estates, so my opinion is only worth conversational fodder. I'm no big timer by any stretch of the imagination. Still, I can talk about it with some knowledge. Good enough!