You Probably Already Know This But It's Worth Saying

[captainsousie]

I know this has been addressed before, but here goes.
I've seen a lot of listings on a certain auction site recently for Peterson meerschaum pipes. The problem with this is many of the meerschaum pipes labelled with a P are in fact Pioneer meerschaums. I would caution everybody who thinks about one of these to look at pipephil and make a positive ID before buying.
Now I'm not saying Pioneer meers are bad. I have one that I am quite happy with but if you're expecting a Pete, you might be disappointed.
Here is a pic of the pioneer stem/shank logo...

...and here are some Peterson logos.

Again, Pioneer meers are not bad but make sure you know what you're getting into.

 

[ghost]

Interesting. Thanks for the info, this could easily have fooled me and I use pipephil often for estates.

 

[jchaplick]

Wow, I never knew that, I have one of the few pioneer calabashes still in good condition, and I love it. But I have to say ive never thought about that. Good piece of advice!

 

[photoman13]

Thanks for clearing that up. I have seen one or 2 wrongly listed on ebay I think.

 

[captainsousie]

Happy to pass on the info guys. There is one more pioneer logo and a few more Pete logos on pipephil. A couple of the P logos look darn similar so it can be really confusing.

 

[nsfisher]

@captiansousie
Nice tip! That would have caught alot of us of guard for sure. Beautiful catch.

 

[hawk60ce]

Thanks!

 

[sixmp]

Well done, nice bit of info that.

 

[hobie1dog]

:clap:

 

[numbersix]

Thanks Captain - that's very good to know.

 

[captainprophesy]

wow... I never would had noticed... thanks for the tip

 

[mrenglish]

Good catch. I have been thinking about getting a Peterson meer. Thanks for the tip, now I know what to look out for.

 

[bayoubreeze]

Thanks for the heads-up. I wasn't aware of pipephil, so it's nice to have that resource as I'm starting to build my collection.

 

[sjpipesmoker]

I never knew Pete's made meers until I saw a few on eBay last week.

 

[pstlpkr]

Captainsousie...

I know who you are... You're Sherlock Holmes!!!! :D

"I only mention it because you usually have a taste for all that is out of the common, no matter how trivial." Lestrade

"I dare call nothing trivial Lestrade" Sherlock Homles

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Six Napoleons
:puffpipe:

 

[captainsousie]

@Lawrence. Thank you kind sir.

There was not one of them which I did not apply to the inquiry. And it ended by my discovering traces, but very different ones from those which I had expected.

-from The Adventure of the Crooked Man