The Peterson brand is issued from the association of the brothers Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp with Charles Peterson. The Dublin tobacco shop first named "Kapp Brothers" (1865) became the "Kapp & Peterson" Company.

Tom Palmer bought the Peterson business in the early 1990s .
Production (2006): ~ 120 000 Pipes / year

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• This meerschaum pipe was crafted in 1892 two years after the Kapp brothers and Charles Peterson patented their system (see date letter chart of Dublin's Assay Office and Peterson's time line).
• The silver band identifies both "Peterson" and the parent company "Kapp Brothers" (stamped KAPP BRO).

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• HAND CUT is impressed into the P-lip mouthpiece.

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• The case is of the "Kidney" kind.

The shank/stem gap: one of Peterson's odd particularity. The tenon is slightly tapered so even if the briar or the stem material shrinks or expands the stem can still be inserted tightly. This allows to safely remove and replace stem while pipe is hot.

The enlarged views display the tenon extension (the condensor). In the early years, Peterson used horn condensors (this pipe) for their Deluxe and Premier series. Sometime in the 1940's they changed to bakelite and finally to aluminum nowadays.

The first two escutcheon in Peterson's genuine silver hallmark are a Hibernia and a Harp. The first mark on the band of this pipe is a Shamrock denoting a non silver metal, probably nickel. These faux hallmarks cannot be of any help to date the pipe.