MINT-K&P PETERSON "Irish Whiskey #87" Smoking Pipe -N/R

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History of the Peterson Brand Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp, German immigrants to Ireland from Nürnberg , Germany , founded the famed Kapp Brothers store on Grafton Street , Dublin in 1865. Shortly tafter, a Latvian immigrant, Charles Peterson, strolled into the Kapp workshop and declared that he could make better pipes than they. Armed with an imaginative flair for pipes and a craftsman's background, Peterson not only proved himself correct, but became the third partner in the fledgling firm. K&P Peterson "Irish Whiskey Smooth #87" Smoking Pipe - New and Unsmoked This is a NO Reserve auction for a Mint K&P Peterson "Irish Whiskey Smooth" Smoking Pipe. The pipe has a polished, light, smooth finish- letting some very nice grain patterns show thru. The vulcanite stem contains the Peterson 'P-lip'. The pipe comes with it's pipe pouch and box. Overall length of 6"; bowl height of 1 3/4" with bowl opening/width of 3/4". The 'P-lip' stem contains the gold Peterson "P" symbol. The shank has a very attractive matching brass rings accent piece . Nomenclature on shank: PETERSON'S Irish Whiskey and Made in the Republic of Ireland and shape # 87 (which is, according to Peterson's classic shape chart, a 'Large Apple' shape) . The pipe is very comfortable in the hand-- lightweight and well-balanced. A pipe cleaner does pass thru the stem and read more