Friends, can anyone help me reconcile this information about the Mark Twain pipe?
This first link says that the MT was issued in 1981, 1985, 2010-Present:
For this second part of Peterson System shapes, we’ll be looking at all the System shapes outside the 300 shape group. “300,” recall from last time, simply means the Standard System or old third gr…
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But this catalog from 1988 shows the MT:
My initial guess was the pipe above was not a system hence being omitted from the first link but then I found this post below indicating it was in fact a system:
With the prices on K&P estate pipes taking some big jumps in recent months, I thought it might be time to look at one of my favorite eras: the Late Republic (1969-1989), as seen in a Hollco-Roh…
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So, was the MT available in the 1980s outside of '81 and '85 or not?
Bonus question: Are the pipes shown on the 1988 Hollco-Rohr catalog the full line of Peterson pipes available that year or only the ones that were distributed to the US? My guess is the latter as the first link mentions that the HAND-MADE XXL Bent Billiard was made from 1988-Present though it did not appear in the 1988 catalog.