Dunhill: Cumberland Quaint Canadian (3) (2023) Tobacco Pipe

Dunhill's Quaint series offers shapes that aren't found on the English firm's standard pipe chart, and for that reason, the pipes in the series are highly collectable and tend to be quite unique, as evidenced by this Group 3-sized Canadian. This piece boasts all of the form's characteristic features, including a firm, upright bowl, a protracted oval shank, and an abbreviated tapered stem. The shank and stem lend the composition a sleek, refined profile, while the bowl offers a sturdy visual presence within the otherwise demure composition. It's all dressed in the earthy sandblast and namesake stem of the Cumberland line.

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."