Alfred Dunhill - White Christmas Pipes 2023 - Limited Edition Cumberland 2 Pipe Set - 13/15

The White Christmas pipes have been specially created, manufactured and composed to form

a two-pipe set featuring one of Bing Crosby’s favourite pipe shapes, in connoisseur circles often referred to as “Crosby’s”.

These are Liverpool shapes with extra-fine, long stems and elongated mouthpieces and Easyloader tops. To be able to manufacture such a shape requires extra-long briar blocks (or ebauchons), which are more and more difficult to find.

Crosby’s are among the most elegant pipes and especially in smaller sizes extremely rare.

This Crosby set in size group 1 (the 1110 with taper mouthpiece and the 1210 with saddle mouthpiece) is available in several finishes.

Each pipe is fitted with an elegant 9ct Gold band, engraved with a signature Barley pattern and the set is housed in a custom-made “Ventage” leather case. 

This series is strictly limited to world-wide only 64 pipe sets:

-   15 pipe sets in Cumberland finish

-   15 pipe sets in County finish

-   14 pipe sets in Rubybark finish

-   20 pipe sets in Shell Briar finish.

FEATURES                KEY BENEFITS

Subject                         - The song “White Christmas” & Bing Crosby

Liverpool                      - Shape 10 

- “Crosby” versions with thinner stem & elongated mouthpieces

- Easyloader top rim

Finishes                        

- Cumberland:   sandblast, brown colour, Cumberland mouthpiece

- County:          sandblast, honey colour, Cumberland mouthpiece

- Rubybark:      sandblast, red colour, Vulcanite mouthpiece

- Shell Briar:     sandblast, black colour, Vulcanite mouthpiece    

Mouthpieces                 Elongated taper (1110) and saddle (1210) mouthpieces, individually cut, shaped and finished for each single pipe.

Size                              - Gp.1 – very small size

- Extremely rare shape & size combination

Precious metal bands     - 9ct Yellow Gold = 37.5% pure gold

                                    - 6mm band, engraved with Barley pattern

Ventage case                 - ventilated case, invented by Alfred Dunhill in 1919 and patented in 

1920; the term Ventage is a combination of the words “Vintage” and 

“Ventilation”

Limited Editions           Exclusive & very collectable - worldwide only 64 pipe sets:

                                    -   15 pipe sets in Cumberland finish

-   15 pipe sets in County finish

-   14 pipe sets in Rubybark finish

-   20 pipe sets in Shell Briar finish.

Certificate                     Individually numbered and hand-signed