I concur completely - I did not read your post prior to posting above. I have a 1905 AB stem that fits a few of my older 309's, and it's much closer to what Rathbone smoked.
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I concur completely - I did not read your post prior to posting above. I have a 1905 AB stem that fits a few of my older 309's, and it's much closer to what Rathbone smoked.
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Not a fair example showing a stem made by Charles Peterson himself. Most of us don't have time machines.
I'm still really happy that I finally got my hands on one so for now the 2021 POTY does it well enough for me. It seems the Peterson collector bug has bitten me though and I do have a 40's 309 that I bought as an estate pipe that needs cleaning up so maybe I'll do that one day.
Loving the Pete's showing up here! I've been hunting for a 605 in an interesting finish, but just keep coming across the same ones (Harp, Donegal, Derry, Kildare). Every time a limited edition Pete comes around--Xmas, St Pat's, etc--I hope that the 605 will be a featured shape, but nope. I know there's other pots made by them, but I'm really wanting that 605.
What are some examples of lines that you find interesting?
I'd be ecstatic if they did a 605 in Rua or Barley. I'm not too picky about stem; plip or fishtail is fine with me. To be honest, the sandblasted Harp is ticking most of the boxes for me: sandblasted, silver band, acrylic stem. Was just hoping there'd be something a little different out there.
I'm guessing you'd have to wait a bit for a rua or barley since the shape is not one of their super popular ones but they could eventually come out. This one's got a pretty nice, uniform blast on both sides:
Just grabbed this Peterson Meer, looks like it's a 106 shape, 106s maybe? Hard to actually find any info about it, love the pipe, hate the P-lip stem but might just find a fishtail that fits and swap them out for my smoking pleasure. Anyone have any idea about it in general?
The closest I've seen was a 106 that Smokershaven was selling at one time but more more of a billiard.
The closest I've seen was a 106 that Smokershaven was selling at one time but more more of a billiard.
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I was doing some organizing and had the whole 11s/312 family in one place for a picture.
Some personal favorites –
Only other shape I have this many of is the 9B / 9BC family
Some personal favorites –
- Top Left, Unknown year, as the silver doesn't have a date hallmark, but it does have a bone chimney
- Top Center - 11s with an A style stem (with a aluminum chimney)
- Top Right - Older 312 standard system. I don't know the year, but I had never seen one with a white "P" before.
Only other shape I have this many of is the 9B / 9BC family
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I don't see any for sale.
The only 2 that I came close to getting wee offered for sale by @simong on here and the other by MKELAW on his site. Both went very quickly.
And for the 9B/BC family. Favorites being the Rua and the Silver Gray NAP system.
Left column is 9BC Pipe of the year, very bottom left is an Irish Seconds.
Left column is 9BC Pipe of the year, very bottom left is an Irish Seconds.
You need one of the older 9BCs but an unsmoked one is a tall order.
It’s closest to a 701, but the meers didn’t follow the exact same shaping as the briars since they were made in a different factory. It was made by Manx/Laxey pipe works on the Isle of Mann out of African meer for Peterson.
I knew someone would have some info, pipes yes... Roman dodecahedrons no, you're the best thanks!
The 606 seemed to be more prevalent. I 'think' I have a 'Natural' 'Irish Free State' 605. I'll have to locate the pipe, but here are a couple of pics. I have it marked in my spreadsheet as a restored 605, but only have these 'before' pics, and the '5' might be a '6'.
