Real Petersons or fakes?

[curttuck]

So this guy has been coming around lately selling estate pipes. At first I trusted him, but as time has gone by, more and more I think he's probably a shady conman. He has three he claims are "genuine Petersons" even though they say "Q-Brand" all over them and look cheap. He claims they are worth 150 dollars each and that Peterson had a line called Q Brand long ago. Online these kinds of pipes sell for like 10 dollars but he's asking 50 a piece. I say he's lying but I want to know for sure so I can call him out on this. He also claims that briar in the 70s and 80s is far higher quality than today because it's endangered and that estate pipes are an excellent investment. Most of his pipes have no engraving markings and he claims they are cheaper because the factory forgot to put them on but I think he sanded them off. I think he's just trying to unload them. I need the advise of those more experienced in this field than I. 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[mrenglish]

I cannot help with the Q Brand, but that shape does not look like anything Peterson would make. There is plenty of good briar available these days, it is not endangered. Also, how would he know if the factory forgot to stamp them?

 

[sasquatch]

That isn't even briar. Tell the guy to f off.

 

[georged]

He's looking for one of those people Barnum said were born every minute.

 

[trouttimes]

<p>I've got 6 in my office. I'll do you a deal

 

[crashthegrey]

I would make a bunch of jokes but you are new here and won't get the inside jokes. So I'll just say based on the picture you posted that the pipe is not briar, and almost every word which you typed from this guy is false. Older briar can be better, but not from that time period, and due to aging, not because it is endangered. He probably didn't sand anything off, these are garbage that were never stamped in the first place more than likely. Keep your money.

 

[woodsroad]

“coming around lately”, as in going door-to-door, like the Watchtower ladies? We never get itinerant pipe peddlers around here very much anymore. They’ve all switched over to selling asphalt and roofing.

 

[jpmcwjr]

That isn't even briar. Tell the guy to f off.

My reaction completely.
Although, wait!! Maybe they're Dunhills!!

 

[ophiuchus]

Seriously ...
Q-Brands are Chinese machine made pipes available in bulk. One might find these in a shop that specializes in vapes and glass pipes. The stems are plastic; the bowl is wood (not otherwise specified, but the grain does not look like briar). They generally run retail under $10; they're available wholesale for less.
I haven't smoked one (they look small and horrible to me, and heavier than one would expect); I'm told that they're not good for smoking anything.
Oh, yeah ... they're not made by Peterson. :lol:

 

[crashthegrey]

I would love if someone was peddling pipes at my door. Not these, but good ones.

 

[scloyd]

This reminds me of the guys years ago that cruised the mall parking lots trying to find some sucker to buy their "great" stereo speakers out of the back of their van.

 

[ashdigger]

At least they're not cobs.

 

[woodsroad]

I had a set of cobs that I bought out of some guys van back in the day. The high end was great.

 

[unkleyoda]

:rofl:
Fake!

 

[wyfbane]

I remember the mall speaker guys! That is so funny.
I had Cerwin Vegas, and they were like, "these are just as good, but we can't hook them up to show you."

 

[scloyd]

@wyfbane - the speaker guys always had some story about going to the warehouse to pick up a set of speakers and the warehouse gave them an extra set by mistake.

 

[ashdigger]

Years ago I was sitting at my house and a friend gives me a call and excitedly tells me about the speaker set up he just purchased. He then goes on to ask my help setting them up. I agree and head over. We arrived at his house almost at the same time and he excitedly is unloading 4 boxes of speakers. We get them in his house and SHAZAM.....only one box actually had a speaker. The other three boxes were carefully packed (probably weighed to the ounce) with styrofoam and building scraps. Yep, he bought them out of the back of a van, at a gas station. The one speaker "that worked" was just a pulsing pile of shit.

 

[aldecaker]

Yikes. Let the buyer beware, indeed. Not to steal too much of Sammy Johns' thunder, but everything that's happened to me involving the back of a van has been pretty great.

 

[ashdigger]

Was that down by the river?

 

[aldecaker]

No, it was in a town that was so small, you could throw a rock from end to end.