Dress (3204) (2007) Tobacco Pipe

There are a few times that I have heard pipe men claim that the Dunhill Dress pipe is varnished. Piffle, I say! Since it's origination in 1973, the venerable Dunhill Dress has never been varnished. It's a painfully laborious staining process to achieve the jet black color, required many, many coats of a dark, dark green stain to achieve the effect (green?! yeah, that was my reaction too, but apparently that achieves the best results). All this work yields an impressive result: striking, elegant and paired beautifully with the 6mm sterling band that comes standard on all Dress series pipes.

-- Sykes Wilford