Unique Peterson - Identification Help

[antonine]

There was an eBay auction that just ended for this very interesting Peterson: Peterson Dublin 999 St. Patrick's Day Tobacco Pipe | eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/326309783531

The auction says it's a St. Patrick's Day pipe, but I am almost 99% certain it is not. I'm no expert on Peterson, but I do have a long-standing love for the 1998 St. Patrick's Day release, partly because it was the first year they released the SPD and primarily because of that lovely Irish tricolour band.

Every 1998 SPD I've seen (including the one I own) has the following stamping on one side:

"A Peterson Product"
Made in the Rep.
of Ireland

And this on the other:

St. Patrick's
Day

However the stamping on that eBay auctioned Peterson is quite different, and in fact doesn't even call itself out as a St. Patrick's Day pipe at all. Now until I saw this auction, I would have told you that the 1998 SPD and the 2023 SPD (which was the 25th Anniversary of the line) are the only Peterson pipes to have ever had the Irish tricolour band. Clearly this is not the case, or I'm missing something, and I'd love to figure out what's going on here!

So: does anyone have any info about this pipe, its line, and when it was made?

 

[bayareabriar]

I think some of the 98 tricolor/st Patrick day pipes did not have the stamp. The 05 on pipe notes article doesn’t appear to have that stamping.

 

[antonine]

I could understand some variation in whether "St Patrick's Day" got stamped or not, but using two completely different brand representations (the "A Peterson Product" stamp on all the 1998s I've seen vs. "Peterson's Dublin" on that eBay example) in a single time-limited release seems very weird to me.

 

[bayareabriar]

I could understand some variation in whether "St Patrick's Day" got stamped or not, but using two completely different brand representations (the "A Peterson Product" stamp on all the 1998s I've seen vs. "Peterson's Dublin" on that eBay example) in a single time-limited release seems very weird to me.

Yeah, I am waiting for the cpg’s to chime in so I can learn from them.