Shape? I wish more/all Deluxes were available with a tapered stem.
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No shape number. I’ll match it to a comparable one.
Picked up this beauty at the post office today. A billiard 9K gold spigot from 1979 with amazing birdseyes. Appears unused.
Just grabbed this pre-republic Shamrock X86.
My Peterson stable currently numbers 13. I have a few more in mind!
I love those gargantuan house pipes! It's fun seeing it by that Junior lovat.
Like the 01 and needed an Irish Harp. 
Here’s the pipe in question (on the right) along with a 1984 Mark Twain (on the left).
I emailed Peterson a while back to ask about that very thing. The basic gist of the answer was, they are not currently making more Deluxe Systems with tapered stems because of material availability.
Thanks for passing along the info. I wonder if they’re just short on vulcanite or looking for someone new to manufacture the deluxe stems. I could imagine that the current stock of saddle stems are what they have from an old manufacturer while they look for a new one. But, who knows
I suspect, it may have something to do with the ever encroaching move to acrylic... But I could be wrong, its just a guess. I personally love acrylic, and if they came out acrylic John Bull stems on System Deluxe's I'd buy every one of them.Thanks for passing along the info. I wonder if they’re just short on vulcanite or looking for someone new to manufacture the deluxe stems. I could imagine that the current stock of saddle stems are what they have from an old manufacturer while they look for a new one. But, who knows
Yeah I like acrylic too and have been wanting to try some of Peterson's (either the standard system or the army filter). Whatever get the tapered stems back faster is fine by me!
There are even a few System Deluxe pipes with acrylic saddle bits now. The P-Lip is a bit shorter on the acrylic stems. All the Pub/House Oom Pauls are acrylic.
Do you know when the switch was made for the Pubs and Houses? My house from 2021 is vulcanite.
Received this beautiful 988-1988 Dublin Millennium (XL88) as a gift from a forum member today. This was a special edition release which celebrated the 1,000 year anniversary of the founding of Dublin!
Thank you very much! It's fantastic! I love it!
Thank you very much! It's fantastic! I love it!
I do not, my 2022 is Acrylic and all the new ones I see listed are acrylic, so I’m guessing sometime in 2021-22.
Wow! What a awesome gift. We have some fantastic members here.
We certainly do and it certainly is. I have quite a bit of admiration for the membership of this forum. Truly a unique place among the interwebs.
Amazing! I’m hoping to land one of the bents with a tapered stem eventually as my birth year pipe.