I just buy what catches my fancy.I just felt second hand excitement and lack of patience
Show Off Your Petersons Here!
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Nice! My money says it says “System”
Very cool!
I’ve got a Made in England pre-republic 363 from the same era, but mine has a circular COM, and the shape number on back of shank.
I am waiting for a similar pipe to arrive in a couple of days but I can’t see the engraving from the photos. I can see there is an encircled number though.
Oh and if the stars align, I am getting my hands on a full pipe collection - here is photos 1 and 2 of 18
Don't have the know-how to show my pipes here. But, just wanted to put in a plug for the Sherlock Holmes Stand. Recently picked up a rusticated Strand estate pipe from SP and love how its bowl is cavernous. Nearly as capacious as my couple of magnums. It will now take the place of my LeStrade in the weekly rotation as I've given up on that piece of crap due to it nearly always clogging up within the first 10-15 minutes of smoking requiring me to declog it with a hot water soak with shank and draft hole cleaning.
That straight system collection is amazing. I keep coming back to look at them again and again. I need to start the hunt for an old straight system Pete.
A couple Petersons that I restored recently
Peterson Dunmore 73
Peterson 301 system
Peterson Dunmore 73
Peterson 301 system
It’s that blissful day again - when last week’s eBay spoils start arriving. I’ve been looking into getting a pipe cabinet of some sort, because my personal collection is slowly growing, but most importantly because it stays in the same room where I restore pipes, meaning the everything is covered in dust all the time…
I found a good looking cabinet with a glass door and room for 21 pipes and some tobacco, paid 120€ for it and waited. Turns out, it comes with 21 pipes in it!
A pleasant surprise, even though they are mostly Lindstrøms, Vauens and lorenzos… most were smoked rarely and just dirty.
But then I see a P-Lip with a P logo on it.
These days I almost never stumble on a Peterson that I know nothing about and this might be obvious for you guys, but what the hell is a Captain Pete?!?
Any information about it or about how old is it, would be greatly appreciated!
I found a good looking cabinet with a glass door and room for 21 pipes and some tobacco, paid 120€ for it and waited. Turns out, it comes with 21 pipes in it!
A pleasant surprise, even though they are mostly Lindstrøms, Vauens and lorenzos… most were smoked rarely and just dirty.
But then I see a P-Lip with a P logo on it.
These days I almost never stumble on a Peterson that I know nothing about and this might be obvious for you guys, but what the hell is a Captain Pete?!?
Any information about it or about how old is it, would be greatly appreciated!
Love seeing the pipes that you get, Petes or not. Thanks for sharing!
I can't answer specifically about what a Captain Pete "is", but I have 2 that are a bent bulldog shape. I don't recall if mine have the same gold-silver-gold band as yours, I'd have to look, but probably the same. Both of mine are pretty hefty and feel nice in hand and stay cool. Also the same rustication.
There, absolutely no real help at all. Sorry.
Yes it feels very hefty and robust tried googling but I got nothing specific, also weirdly enough I can’t find anything on eBay finished auctions….
I just tried petersonpipenotes.org and nothing came up with a search there. I'm sure it's in my Peterson book at home but I've not studied through it yet. It is great for looking up things when I wish, but I've not memorized it by any means...
Amazing resource...............
I believe it was Charles Peterson Jr that went by “Cap’n” and the Captain Petes were a nod to that.
Don’t know off the top of my head the production periods, but with the MITROI stamp it’s newer than 1949
Here’s some info from RebornPipes. “Captain Peterson”s are pretty much pre-republic, and “Captain Pete”s are post.
Don’t know off the top of my head the production periods, but with the MITROI stamp it’s newer than 1949
Here’s some info from RebornPipes. “Captain Peterson”s are pretty much pre-republic, and “Captain Pete”s are post.
Captain Pete was just a line of Peterson’s, been around for ages. They were generally pretty limited in shape/scope and tended to be of chunky proportions. Yours is a nice example with the bimetallic ring and lovely rustication. They were mostly on par with Shamrock grade.
Working on it right now, I can confirm that it hasn’t been smoked more than a couple of times.
