Description

Alfred Dunhill’s most revolutionary innovation was the Shell pipe in 1917. How this technique of sandblasting came about is somewhat of a mystery. The story often told is that Alfred Dunhill went down into his basement in the wintertime to make a couple pipes and accidentally left one, a half finished piece, by the heating boiler. He returned sometime next summer, having suddenly thought of the pipe, only to find some of the grain had ‘shrunk’, leaving a relief pattern.

This pipe has been individually photographed, so that the pipe you see in the picture is the pipe you will receive.

A – 1.40 in

B – 1.50 in

C – 5.5 in

D – 0.7 in

E  – 1.3 in