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 hit Smokingpipes.com on Tuesday around 1:00pm ET.” I don’t know if they will also be available at SPEu or not, but if so, the usual practice is to release them in tomorrow morning’s release, 10am Dublin time.
The Newgrange Spigot was first released in 2017 (see Post #66) in the pre-Laudisi “old style” batch of 12 shapes—that magic number in ancient Celtic myth. If you’re not familiar with this line, here’s a refresher of a few shapes from the line as it appeared in 2017:
As you can see by comparing these with the CP Collection SH Newgrange, the blasting style and ruby stain rims match the great acrylic cumberland swirl F/T (I’m thinking the acrylic in the studio SH photo is a big redder than it will appear in daylight, but I could be mistaken. The beaded spigot is also identical with the first-issue. The first-issues, however, differ from later Newgrange releases and the SH release in that only the first-issue (of all the spigot releases) copied the 1906 style of using an “F” (for Facing or Flat) mount with the beaded spigot:
The spigots reintroduced during the Late Republic era (to refresh your memory) featured either the F mount with a modern tapered spigot or a domed ferrule mount with the beaded spigot, which is how all spigots have rolled out since then. So it was a clever idea in 2017 to do a partial retro-“heritage” release using the F Mount and beaded spigot.
All that history to one side, these SH Newgrange Spigots certainly look a lot like Christmas, and I’m sure Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson would have enormously enjoyed smoking one during “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle,” their only Christmas adventure. I highly recommend that story in either the original written version by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or in the marvelous film adaptation for Granada Television featuring Jeremy Brett.
Wish they had Plips.
Agree. Wonder what the thinking was with the acrylic and fishtail?
Phew! No squire, my wallet is safe!
A Hudson would be nice
WOW!!!! With PPN and this, I will have some explaining to do 🙂
Be care, Bob! We don’t wanna lose you 😉
It will be interesting to see how the larger stummels will look with the spigot. Personally I love the aesthetic of a 999, 120, 128 or the 221 with a spigot but the XL’s can look a bit off. I’m sure that is merely due to my not having one of the larger pipes with a spigot, eh? I do have a B42 Christmas 2022 with a copper spigot and it looks well proportioned. Thank you for the “heads-up”, Mark.
Cha-ching!!!! I’ll try the ” but it’s a Peterson” alibi/excuse with She Who Must Be Obeyed.
The Blue Carbuncle is one of my favourites. They certainly do look Christmasy
Is that a Watson or a Baskerville in the main photo?
Interesting release. Thank you for the heads up, Mark!
Watson, I suppose. Baskerville is more round shape.
Baskerville is my vote. Saw some of them but not alll by the time I woke up at 6 CT in the SPEudrop.
After seeing the ones on SP EU, I think it’s Baskerville too. It’s interesting, I think the spigot works quite attractively with that shape and yet it’s the most leftover on the EU site. The same thing happened with me for the SH natural blast release earlier this year–I found the Baker Street to be quite handsome, and that shape was the most leftover by far at the end.
Early Newgrange spigot was nice idea to implement.
I have Roundstone XL11, so SHO Newgrange would be nice addition to collection. Hope, I’ll be lucky to get (if the price would be reasonable).
Very nice release, they really look like Christmas. But Pipe money is ULTRA tight this time of year.