439. Remembering the Petes of 2024

  It’s almost funny, me wanting to forget the Everything That Happened, when that was exactly where I was still stuck. Maybe the only way to get unstuck was to remember. –Allie Millington, Olivetti (2024) First, this is not about FOMO—“fear of missing out”—and neither is it about PPAD—“Peterson Pipe Acquisition Disorder.”  So if you

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437. A Visual History of the Christmas Pipes 2009-2024

Pictured in banner above: the first three Peterson Christmas pipes, from 2009 – 2011   Santa’s Little Helpers, the 304 Christmas pipe 2019 Almost every year during Advent or the first week of Christmas, we read or listen to Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, which against all odds hit the book stalls on December 19, 1843. 

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435. SPECIAL BULLETIN: Sherlock Holmes Newgrange Spigot Drops Tomorrow, 12/17/2024

  SPECIAL BULLETIN A new Charles Peterson Collection (featuring the CP stamp) will be released tomorrow: the Sherlock Holmes Newgrange Spigot, featuring the Newgrange Spigot’s sterling silver spigots and Cumberland-patterned acrylic fishtail stems.  Per Andy Wike, available shapes will include: Watson Mycroft Original Professor Milverton Baskerville Rathbone Lestrade Baker Street Deerstalker Andy said “these will

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