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ssjones

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Peterson is reintroducing the "Made in Ireland" COM. Mark Irwin details it and the variety of COM's used by Peterson since their inception. So, there's now a new, identifiable era at Peterson beginning in 2021. Check out his blog entry:

 

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Interesting. I was aware of the Hallmarks (metal mount markings), but didn’t realize that they were so many “Made in…” stamps.
 
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greeneyes

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Please correct me if I misspeak but would it be accurate to say that the new stamp doesn't define a new era per se? Isn't ownership and management a more conventional demarcator of era?
 

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Please correct me if I misspeak but would it be accurate to say that the new stamp doesn't define a new era per se? Isn't ownership and management a more conventional demarcator of era?
Well for collectors, to date a pipe, the stamping defines a change in era's, which sometimes are marked by a change in ownership, but not always. When Peterson switched to Republic stamping, that had nothing to do with a change in ownership,right?
 

Ahi Ka

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I agree. A stamp helps to date a pipe to within an era, however (in my opinion) "a stamp does not an era make."
Decades from now, this stamp change will be used by eBay sellers to mark up transition pipes from the pre-pandemic era into the pandemic era, with a particular focus on the patent-prescription period. With the exception of pipes exported for sale down under, which obviously bare the COM “the free state of NZ”, new Peterson variants will be marked with their city of origin eg. “London made”.