English Estates: Dunhill Cumberland (42022) (1980) Tobacco Pipe

Dunhill's classic "02" bent Billiard is presented here in the rugged treatment of the Cumberland line, featuring a warm, craggy auburn sandblast and a sleek, finely patterned mouthpiece of brindled cumberland. As a Group 4, there's plenty of chamber to be had here, all in a form that's still light enough to clench in the jaw. As a piece from 1980, it's quite a handsome vintage, and it shows the evolution of the English marque's numbering system, hiving a five digit code instead of four.

When Alfred Dunhill released his patented Shell Briar, he forever changed the pipe-smoking world at large. Dunhill has often been credited with being the first to offer sandblasted pipes (arguably the most popular finish today), and the Cumberland finish further displayed Dunhill's innovative spirit. Well received after its release in 1979, the Cumberland series was named for the English marque's warehouse on Cumberland road, and the line's signature, brindled vulcanite stem became so iconic, the warmly striated material is now referred to simply as "cumberland."