Dunhill: Cumberland with Silver (3122) (2023) Tobacco Pipe

Rustic and muscular, this Dunhill "22" Poker is a muscular and impressive rendition of a shape-chart standard, elevated by Dunhill's eye for detail. Featuring a respectable chamber and thick walls, the bowl of this Group 3 piece rises into a slightly forward-slanting cylinder as it sits atop a flattened heel. The shank pushes out from a slightly elevated transition to meet a sleekly tapering stem, the junction marked by a band of silver for rich contrast. Dressed in the crisp, earthy sandblast of the Cumberland series, this pipe showcases plenty of handsome grain, the palette nicely complemented by the line's iconic, eponymous stem.

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."