Savinelli CBP MONACO?

[spearheadbill]

Hello good people,
I just picked up this Savinelli 115 and it's stamped CBP MONACO and can't seem to find any info on what the cbp monaco might refer to. Terrific POT either way but hoping to see if one of you might shed some light on it. Thank you

 

[xrundog]

C. B. Perkins.

 

[spearheadbill]

Thank you for that! I did not visit them on my Boston trip. Shame.

 

[Merton]

Charles B. Perkins was a Boston tobacconist beginning in the early1900s. My recollection is that , at least during the 1970s and 80s they sold mostly rebadged Lane blends . They never really competed with the two major Boston tobacconists L.J. Peretti and Ehrlich (now, sadly, long gone) inasmuch as those houses produced their own blends and, especially in the case of Ehrlich, an in-house pipemaker who worked in the front window of their Tremont street store directly next to King's Chapel and its famous Burial Ground. . The Ehrlich store had a giant pipe which looked like a Peterson Meerschaum system pipe on its outside wall and the door handle was a big straight billiard.

I believe the CB Perkins still has two or three retail outlets still in Massachusetts, although It appears to be more of a cigar, vape and Hookah store now.