Shell Briar (4102) with 10mm Silver Band (2012) Tobacco Pipe

Most Dunhill shapes vary a bit in line and form between one Group size version and another. Take, for example, the "02"; in Group 3 size it supple and smooth-lined throughout, a bent Billiard of unusually feminine beauty. Unusually for a classic English Billiard, that is, as English Billiards tend to be masculine in style as a rule. The Group 4 variation, however, as seen here in this ring-grained, silver-banded Shell Briar, is indeed a rather masculine rendition, with sturdier style of definition about the transition, as well as a more direct taper, and a more solid heel to the bowl.

- Eric N. Squires