280. Pete Shape Numbers from a 1955 Genin, Trudeau &Cie Pipe Box Brochure
PSAs (Peterson Service Announcements) Are you attending the Chicago Pipe Show? The world's biggest and best pipe show is back after a two-year COVID-inflicted hiatus. If you're going, please email me at petegeek1896@gmail.com with “Chicago” in the title. We’ll organize some kind of CPG gathering at the show. There are attendees from all over the world, artisan and estate dealers, ephemera and vintage tin dealers, big tables by Smokingpipes and Iwan Reis and open-house hotel rooms with dozens of vendors and artisans in the evenings and a smoking tent where more pipes are being smoked simultaneously than at either other point on Planet Earth. While Peterson will not have a table, Laudisi Enterprises, Peterson's parent company will be there as will Smokingpipes.com. Word has it they'll be giving away a free spigot, Irish Wolfhound puppy and bottle of Irish single pot whiskey to anyone with his CPG identification. You don't want to miss it. Are you interested in a Peterson Pipe Notes CPG System? I haven’t responded individually to all who have submitted their names and ensured themselves a place in the queue, but I received an update from K&P that they will make us the pipe! At this point I have submitted a wish list of options: a System with sterling mount (either dome or space-fitting), preferably with vulcanite, but that depends on bowl availability; aluminum tenon extension for best possible System engineering; sandblast (not black) in either contrast stain or tan (like the House Pipe Spigots a few months back); price between $150 and $200 US and hoping it can ship from either SPC or SPEu, whichever is closer to you. The order may not be ready until around Christmas, so you've got plenty of time to save or get an early letter off to Santa. Forty pipes minimum is the magic number of pipes here, but if you want one and have not submitted your name yet, please an email to petegeek1896@gmail.com. Most importantly, you don't have to be a CPG to buy one. In fact, buying one will get you your CPG certificate. If you're already a CPG, we'll add a merit badge to your certificate. Just to reiterate: if you want a pipe, there is no minimum number being made. Once the design and price have been settled on, I will email everyone to let them know how to make payment. Back in post #140 I shared two rare Genin, Trudeau & Cie Canadian shape charts offering Peterson numbers that often cause a lot of head-scratching among collectors, and this morning I’d like to add a third. GT&C was an old-time mail Canadian order firm similar to Hudsons Bay, Sears and Montgomery Ward that offered all manner of goods not unlike Amazon today. GT&C was K&P's sole Canadian distributor from c. 1900 until at least 1975, but probably for several years longer. Alfred Kapp and his son Harry, both Rotarians, handled Peterson’s distribution in Canada, making regular trips to visit their fellow Rotarians in Toronto,…