Oil Cured Peterson?

[twoadaydanny]

First off, a nod to one of the sponsors. I was on Al Pascia's website last night, and was pleasantly surprised to see a bunch of Petersons that were unlike those I've seen at US retailers. I was even more pleasantly surprised to see that with courier delivery running a mere 10 Euro (about US$13 these days), Al Pascia was not markedly more expensive than US retailers I'm familiar with. I will definitely be prowling their website in the future.
Anyhow... I purchased a straight Dublin, in what was described as "Natural Sandblast Army Linseed" style. Googling this, I saw these pipes described as "trattamento ad olio" (treated with oil?) on another Italian website. The bowls of the pipes in this style appear to be pre-carbed.
I'm not a Peterson expert by any means, but I wasn't aware that any Peterson briars were oil-cured.
Can any of you guys educate me? Anybody know anything about this particular species of Pete? Are they in fact oil-cured? Why do they only seem to be available in Italy?
Here's the link. Look at the bottom of the page--the light/medium brown sandblasts with the amber-colored bits.
http://www.alpascia.com/group.asp?detail=14459
Thanks.
Dan

 

[nemrod]

I don't have any answers, but something quite curious about them is that they have the style of P in the stamp that was used pre-republic. Why would they have that? Strange.

 

[dylan793]

I'm in agreement with nemrod, strange. Like a sandblasted Rosslare or something. I haven't seen these anywhere else. Are they current production, or new old stock? I'm a novice Peterson nut, never seen/heard of these :? The mark on the bottom only says Peterson's (over) Dublin. No mention of which line it is, and it doesn't look like the "Dublin" line either.

 

[francois1]

I have been looking at the range of peterson i find them strange

have not seen the silver band befor wonder if they are not

specially made for them they also seem a bit on the high

side price wise

david

 

[rigmedic1]

These are some fine looking pipes though! I see what you mean by pricey as well. One of those sandblasted yellow stem pipes would look great in my hand...