Deluxe 9B

Banner: The 9B Revival and the 9BC Shamrock (courtesy Fletcher Hiner) SPECIAL BULLETIN DROP TIME UPDATE: The Drop Time Adam O'Neill just informed me is the same as always: 10am Dublin time. That's GMT+1. May 2nd, 2023. Per Adam O’Neill at Smokingpipes.eu: “We’re dropping the Premier System Revival Rusticated 308 P-Lip on the 19th of May at the usual time (10am GMT+1), with 75 pieces exclusive to Smokingpipes Europe and Peterson's Nassau St. store.” Per Federica Bruno, “the price is € 121.95. The pipes are not numbered, just stamped “308” and “CP” [Charles Peterson Collection]. The 308 Premier System Revival: Another beautiful photo by Adam O’Neill (SPE) The Revival 308 Rustic Premier is a brilliant follow-up to the Revival Deluxe System 9B.  I've said before that Premiers are the scarcest standard-issue Systems and if you like the new rustication (that's me) and the domed sterling ferrule (that's also me) you may want to attend the drop party. Collectors of the Charles Peterson Collection pipes should note that this is CP#6, following February 2023's release of the Sherlock Holmes Iora (see Post #315 for photos of the first five releases). I also want to call your attention to the fantastic vulcanite P-Lip stem, similar to that used by the 309 and 312 up until the 309 was discontinued. This is the same bowl, incidentally, as the 2022 POY Mark Twain 14B, in case you hadn’t already noticed. Shape 14 = 308 in the Standard and Premier lines.   ALL PIPES CONSIDERED: PETERSON DELUXE SYSTEM 9B I want to document last Sunday’s  All Pipes Considered by reposting it here on the blog. It’s not often in the world of pipes and tobaccos that the trade has time to sit down with the hobby to discuss a new release, and information like this is of great value to the companioner and collector in all kinds of ways. This is doubly so when we’re dealing with the likes of Andy Wike, Marketing Directory at Laudisi, and Josh Burgess, VP of Manufacturing at Laudisi as well as K&P’s Managing Director. It has long been one of my core beliefs that good readers are re-readers, and one reason Peterson as a brand has witnessed so much traction in recent years has to do with this very fact. (1)  Pete Geeks by nature seem more inclined to in-depth study and research, and if pipe smokers are drawn increasingly to Peterson as a brand I believe it's because of its rich history and the sophistication of its pipes.  If you didn’t get a chance to actually read through the conversation between Josh and Andy, I invite you to do so now, and even if you did, I think you’ll find something you missed the first time. [Andy Wike]: Welcome back to another episode of All Pipes Considered. So today I have the great honor of sitting with Joshua Burgess, the Managing Director of Kapp and Peterson, and we’re here to talk about something super special. I am a…