Dunhill: Cumberland Quaint Bent Dublin Sitter (5) (2021) Tobacco Pipe

Although Dunhill usually crafts pipes from their iconic shape chart, their Quaint series embraces creative shaping and outside-the-box pipes. This bent Dublin features a pert, flared bowl and a well-bent shank-and-stem arrangement that meet at a sweeping transition, which has a flattened underside, altering the gestural profile and making this pipe a stable Sitter. A lengthy saddle stem allows for comfortable jaw-hanging and grants this pipe a gracile silhouette, and it's dressed in the crisp sandblast of the Cumberland series.

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."