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| A little walk
into the past to see how our fore fathers coped with the trend
of smoking. And a look at how it began. Interesting snippets,
history of PipeSmoking, how Dunhill first started and how we
first lit our pipes. |
| through
the ages >> |
 The
rise of smoking in England..No
sooner had Columbus in the 16th Century shown the way to the
new lands far overseas than a host began to follow in his train,
from every nation they came in haste, eager to imitate the example
of the Spaniards, and acquire, each for his own country, has
many El Dorados as they might discover >> |
| history
of the pipe >> |
 We
wil take up the story from the era of the clay pipe, I
know pipe smoking goes further back in history than this
but I'll start here because I think this is where pipe
smoking as we know it today really had an effect. |
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| the
start of an era >> |
 1893
was the beginning of a long journey for Alfred Dunhill,
when he took over the reins of the family business, a
harness and saddelry maker in London's Euston Road >> |
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| the
first light >> |
 John
Walker, a dapper little man, "with a merry smile,
a facetious wit, wearing usually, a brown tail-coat, knee-breeches,
Great grey stockings, white cravat, and tall beaver hat."
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| snippets
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 In
the Imperial War Museum in London is the Brobdingnagian
pipe belonging, before 1914, to the Baden Lifeguard Grenadiers,
with ceramic bowl and ornately carved wooden stem two-and-a-half
feet long! >> |
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| how
it was >> |
 In
the early days tobacconists in England used to issue their own
coins as change, until this practice was stopped by Charles
the Second >> |
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