Here's an interesting one. I bought this thinking the nomenclature read 'Kapp & Peterson's Dublin', and was possibly a pre-Patent Peterson. Unfortunately, no such luck. However, it turned out to still be quite an interesting piece, a 'Dummy' (the very first iteration of Irish Seconds). Here's what Mark Irwin said in an email:
'This is the original “reject” or “second” line, the K&P DUMMY, of the Patent era. I have never seen one with a brass band. Either the nickel was buffed off, or, as I suspect, it was original either brass or composite of some kind. The pipe was sold primarily in Ireland, mostly at the Dublin shop(s) K&P ran on Grafton Street. A few might have been sold by Arthur Colton in London, but I doubt it, since K&P was trying to preserve their reputation and they sold these mainly to locals who were used to clay pipes and wanted to try a new-fangled briar but not spend anything.'
And a link to the Peterson Pipe Notes article on them:
petersonpipenotes.org
I have seen one other (similar shape to this one) with a nickel-coloured band. This one (possibly all of them?) has an orific bit.
This one has many dinks and a couple of fills, but in person it's a lovely big chunk of briar with some nice grain patterning under the grime. The chamber size is probably not far off the size of my Pub Pipe.
PPN XL5BC arrived yesterday
I saw barley finish and couldn't hold back. A 312 was a must, and the 303 is a first for me in that shape. Now if they do a barley blast Deluxe System, I might get them all.
