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If you are a Dunhill Collector then you know that this is the seventh in the "Twelve Days of Christmas" series of Dunhill Christmas Pipes. I am selling the whole set of twelve and would love to sell them to one buyer/collector to keep them together but if not I'll let them go individually. They are all #57 of a limited edition of 500 except the eleventh which is #146. They are all perfect and "as new". I've chosen not to polish the sterling silver so you'll see the patina in the photos. as I am a pipe collector. These are investment grade. They even come with a silver polishing cloth.

For the buyer that wants to buy the whole set, please email me through eBay. I reserve the right to end the auction early as this set is for sale locally.

Back in 1997 famed Dunhill pipe expert Richard Carleton Hacker wrote the following in Pipe Smoke Magazine: "In 1982, Dunhill introduced the now-famous Christmas model that was packaged in a leather book resembling the special-order Dunhill pipe cases of the 1930s. Only 300 or less of each year's pipe were made, and the series continued through 1991. In 1992, Dunhill started a new series of Christmas pipes, with each year portraying a line from the sixteenth-century English carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas." This series retains the leather book casing, with the gold-stamped spine denoting the title of that year's series (i.e., Four Calling Birds for the fourth year, 1996) and the pipe's individual serial number. The pipe itself is stamped with its serial number, along with all of the standard nomenclatures that make Dunhill so collectable. In addition, each year's pipe comes with a sterling silver tamper depicting the title theme. Only 500 cased pipes are produced worldwide for each year, and the rather steep $1,200 price tag no doubt keeps many from trying to acquire the complete set. And yet, like all Christmas pipes, the first issues invariably prove to be the most elusive for future collectors, when today's high prices become yesterday's bargains. There are thought to be less than 15 complete 1980-1997 Dunhill Christmas pipe sets in the world. Perhaps that is why many newer collectors are starting to assemble a Twelve Days of Christmas set while it is still possible."

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