Thread: Match to Dunhill's "Early Morning"

If you want a real Comoy pipe or Dunhill tobacco you'll have to go to ebay. I have a couple of dozen Comoys (I'm smoking one now) and they were a good pipe. If there are any being made with that mark on them now they ain't Comoys regardless of the stamp on the shank.

It is a shame that the Dunhill company gave up on tobacco. I smoked many a bowl of 965 and Nightcap .... Early Morning, and London Mixture too. These tobaccos went through various incarnations as Dunhill went from an in house blend to Murray's and eventually to a Danish tobacco blender. I liked them all but they gradually did away with the tobacco end of the business. More $ in perfume and designer clothes I guess and tobacco is so politically incorrect.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

If you want a real Comoy pipe or Dunhill tobacco you'll have to go to ebay. I have a couple of dozen Comoys (I'm smoking one now) and they were a good pipe. If there are any being made with that mark on them now they ain't Comoys regardless of the stamp on the shank.

It is a shame that the Dunhill company gave up on tobacco. I smoked many a bowl of 965 and Nightcap .... Early Morning, and London Mixture too. These tobaccos went through various incarnations as Dunhill went from an in house blend to Murray's and eventually to a Danish tobacco blender. I liked them all but they gradually did away with the tobacco end of the business. More $ in perfume and designer clothes I guess and tobacco is so politically incorrect.

Au contraire: Pipes - Comoys

Originally Posted by Oglethorpe

Au contraire: Pipes - Comoys

What I mean is that the Comoys of the 1900s through the 1970s are history. Someone has the name but it isn't the same pipe. The same with a Simpson shaving brush. It may say Simpson on the handle but it is a Vulfix. It is made on the Isle of Wight not in Somerset. Dunhill pipes are another example. AFAIC if it was made after 1983 it may have a white dot on the stem but it ain't a Dunhill. YMMV.

Ah... I stand corrected. I am a pipe newbie and that's one of the vendors I've used. But by no means am I a pipe historian.

Just today I heard that Dunhill is either not making pipe tobacco any more or maybe they are just not importing it to the US. I had not smoked a pipe in a long time.... had a decent collection at one point, more or less gave them away a few years back and decided today to pick up a pipe again. I bought en inexpensive saber tooth meerschaum and and went on the hunt for my old favorite: Dunhill Nightcap. No can get any more apparently, at least in the US. If anyone knows of a good replacement for that I'd be much obliged. I got some "frog morton" on the recommendation of the tobbaconist and it was very nice and everything he said it was, but in a somewhat different vein from nightcap. Had that on the patio tonight with a perfectly made (if I do say so myself...) bloody mary. It's nice to take a few moments to reflect like that before the week starts back up. Still ... missed the nightcap for sure.

Originally Posted by Charllie

Just today I heard that Dunhill is either not making pipe tobacco any more or maybe they are just not importing it to the US. I had not smoked a pipe in a long time.... had a decent collection at one point, more or less gave them away a few years back and decided today to pick up a pipe again. I bought en inexpensive saber tooth meerschaum and and went on the hunt for my old favorite: Dunhill Nightcap. No can get any more apparently, at least in the US. If anyone knows of a good replacement for that I'd be much obliged. I got some "frog morton" on the recommendation of the tobbaconist and it was very nice and everything he said it was, but in a somewhat different vein from nightcap. Had that on the patio tonight with a perfectly made (if I do say so myself...) bloody mary. It's nice to take a few moments to reflect like that before the week starts back up. Still ... missed the nightcap for sure.

I'll check in at my shop and get back to you on that. They do a bunch of matches (I really like the 965 and the Early Morning), so maybe they do Night Cap as well. I'll be in touch via PM or post when I have a chance to check it out.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

If you want a real Comoy pipe or Dunhill tobacco you'll have to go to ebay. I have a couple of dozen Comoys (I'm smoking one now) and they were a good pipe. If there are any being made with that mark on them now they ain't Comoys regardless of the stamp on the shank.

It is a shame that the Dunhill company gave up on tobacco. I smoked many a bowl of 965 and Nightcap .... Early Morning, and London Mixture too. These tobaccos went through various incarnations as Dunhill went from an in house blend to Murray's and eventually to a Danish tobacco blender. I liked them all but they gradually did away with the tobacco end of the business. More $ in perfume and designer clothes I guess and tobacco is so politically incorrect.

I smoked those Dunhill tobacco's for a while as well. Nightcap was one of my favorites and my local Tobacconist had house blends for them all, so I didn't have to shell out the big bucks either.

I moved onto bigger and better things, but sadly, the well dried up...and a LOT of my favorite tobacco's are no longer made because of the shortage of that lovely latakia

I still have a can or 2 of GL Pease Mephisto, unopened...*sigh*...why do the good things have to go away?!

Originally Posted by DPflaumer

On an unrelated note, my brother is a freshman this year at R.I.T. I'm trying to convince him to switch to a straight, or at least a DE. Maybe I could gift him my EJ for Christmas.

You should see if you can get him to come to the WNY meet next month. There are DE and straight shavers that would be attending. Good way to get his feet wet and see what it is all about.

I currently have a tin of Nightcap I picked up in Germany last year....
I have never tried it before, and I'm terribly torn:
On the one hand, I know many pipe smokers would kick a puppy for this tin of tobacco, and I feel like I should either sell/give it to them, or enjoy it.

On the other hand, I feel like trying a tin of what is often touted as one of the finest blends ever produced that is no longer in production would be like Pandora's Box.

GAAAAAAH!

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

I'll check in at my shop and get back to you on that. They do a bunch of matches (I really like the 965 and the Early Morning), so maybe they do Night Cap as well. I'll be in touch via PM or post when I have a chance to check it out.

Thank you!