The B10 and B11 seem to have been released at the same time, and both have found a home in the Classic Range in almost every line Peterson issues. Peterson is one of the most renowned brands around the globe. The company makes high quality pieces in their Dublin-based factory.
The company is now owned by the American company “Laudisi Enterprises“. For my birthday this year in February, my wife got me one of the Peterson Pipes featuring the Peterson system. Before this pipe, I’ve only ever smoked pipes that I’ve made myself or pipes that cost chacom tobacco pipes less than $40.
However, by the mid-90s he would take almost complete control of the company. An accountant by trade, Palmer has been able to look at Peterson as a creator of products that must make a profit, while still holding true to the artistic side of briar pipes. The Date Letter Code for the year in which the silver was hallmarked (see the chart below).
I turned to “The Peterson Pipe” by Mark Irwin and Gary Malmberg to get some background on the Peterson’s Of Dublin pipes. Furthermore Laxey Pipe Ltd. manufactured the meer bowls for Peterson, Barling, Nørding and others from the later 1960’s until 2001. The bowls usually showed no nomenclature indicating the orderer. Often, just the stems were different, while bowls were the same.
It also seems to me that Mark and Gary do not make the distinction very clear on the two. They also note that the pipe had a black vulcanite stem with a gold “P” stamped on it as this one does but the pipe I am working on has an acrylic stem as noted in the opening paragraph of this section. The information given above has an element of confusion for me. It seems that the pipe in question is from the second issue C.1979 as this one is probably made after than date.
In a world full of notifications, and electronics that demand our attention my system pipe brings me back down into a grounded reality. I let my head empty into nothingness at this time and watch the wonderful world God created while I slowly puff on my pipe. If I’m lucky enough I get to see the fox that lives on my property steal away to its den near my swamp just before the sun goes down. It’s a great experience and one that helps me feel more connected to God’s creation. In the early 1990s, Tom Palmer bought the company along with a small group of investors.