60. Peterson 2017 Product Catalog & A Well-Kept Secret
2017 Peterson Pipe Collection And here it is – the 2017 Peterson Pipe Collection catalog! Download it, save it, pass it along to other Pete Nuts—that’s what it’s for. You’ve seen official photos of most of the new lines a few blogs back, although I’ve been told there will be minor adjustments made to the final finish on the Clontarf and Summertime lines. If you’re particularly anxious to own one of the pipes in the catalog above, Yiorgos Manesis at James Fox / PipeDivan has the following in stock, although not all of them will be listed on the website until Monday: 2017 POTY Smooth (filter or no filter) - €211.38 2017 POTY Rustic (No filter) - €178.86 2017 Summertime B10 (No filter) - €113.82 Newgrange Spigot XL02, 87, 999 (no filter) and XL90, 106, XL11 (filter) - €187 Waterford XL22 (Filter) - €113.82 Let me caution you that one or two may be gone, as Tom Carrolan wrote Friday morning asking me to pass along his benediction: "In the spirit and tradition that (apparently) has made America Great Again — Go ahead, I’ve got mine (paid for and shipped)!" You can get in touch with Yiorgos at yiorgos@jamesfox.ie . In the next few blogs, I’ll be taking a close-up look at the individual lines beginning with the POTY, but for now, take a look at the catalog, then proceed. You looked at the catalog, right? The 2017 Peterson Products catalog is the first-ever ephemera appearance of the Peterson plateaux free hand pipe. Some might say this is not a “classic” Peterson shape. In a sense, they're right. But it is, nevertheless, historic Peterson, and we’re going to tell you all about it in The Peterson Pipe Book. For now, I’ll only say that it first appeared over forty years ago, and is the only Peterson pipe to be made from plateaux briar. Ever. Okay, so I’ll tell you just a little more. While it’s called the “Plateau” range in the new catalog, the shape has had two names over the years. Here in the U.S. and in the U.K., it’s usually called a “Plato,” but in Italy and some parts of Europe it’s known as the “Barktop.” The former is a pun, the latter a description. While each pipe is one-of-a-kind and hand-turned, most of them share house-pipe proportions, with routine chamber diameters stretching from 22 to 24 mm. They are typically seen in a high-grade natural finish and one or two lower grades with darker finishes. P-Lip vulcanite mouthpieces were the rule until the last generation of these pipes, when a few were seen with acrylic fishtails. While most have the imbedded aluminum (or sometimes brass on the natural) P on the mouthpiece, some of the dark pipes are hot foil P stamped.There has never been a shape number stamp on this range, only the arched forktail PETERSON'S over DUBLIN. Usually the uncut burl is exposed at both rim and shank, although there have been a smaller number…