It's the first time I see rusticated pipes not being numbered during a limited/special release.
The ones I saw were from PipeClub, a seller I’ve bought from in the past. Must have become a Peterson dealer… Well at least eBay doesn’t crash.
2021 SPD pipes were rusticated and not serialized. As far as 2022 SPD pipes I don’t know… I didn’t buy any. And I’m pretty sure none of my previous SPD pipes were serialized.
Yes, mate, understood and aware of the lack of serializing for previous years.
Lower price point of the rusticated pipes probably doesn’t allow enough margin. Somebody already put time in to rusticate them, and additional time to serialize them eats up that margin.Yes, mate, understood and aware of the lack of serializing for previous years.
If they are to serialize some, why not all, if it's such a milestone pipe?
It's like they would have serialized only part of the POTYs.
It's not important, but I just fail the see the rationale.
It would make me feel like the rusticated I get is of less value and meaning, overall.
That's on top of not getting that awesome looking pipe sock.
Good points on both your remarks.
Our lineage on my father's side we can trace back to 1750 in Ireland (including what is now Northern Ireland)!
My maternal relatives were and are Loyalists, but most are fairly reasonable. The historic divide between the communities has blurred in recent years, thank God. My sister in law lost her parents in the Enniskillen bombing and the pain lingers in the family. Young people there are doing their best to put all that behind them, but there are fanatics on both sides still. BTW, Ulstermen played a big part in the founding of the United States. Thanks for posting.
Nice grain on that one!
I really like it. This is the first of this shape for me as well.
It's funny, I got an email that tobaccopipes had a couple of smooths on their site. I jumped on the site out of curiosity and in fact saw two smooths available. I clicked on the first one and....gone. I then backed out and clicked on the second available one and...gone. I am surprised they were still there when I jumped to the site. Glad I got mine even though during my purchase on smokingpipes the website was having a meltdown. Too many people purchasing at the same time. Now I am done purchasing pipes for a while haha!According to my email, they dropped more smooths and sandblasts yesterday. Probably gone before I even received the email.
Great minds think alike! I almost bought the Deerstalker in the rusticated and ended up with the XL13 (Baker Street). I have a smooth Deerstalker in the Sherlock Holmes series so I thought this was a cool way to pick up a unique Baker Street. Got it today and it looks/smokes beautifully.
