NATURAL stamp

  PSAs (Peterson Service Announcement) Are you interested in a CPG System? Are you interested in a Peterson Pipe Notes commemorative CPG System? As you probably know, K&P makes yearly and sometimes twice-yearly pipes for the PSOI group, and as several CPGs have asked about the feasibility of such a pipe for our group, we need to take a headcount, as numbers are crucial for a special order like this. I don’t details yet, just a few preferences from my end. The CPG will be a System P-Lip, sandblast (not black), stamped “CPG” and be of a medium chamber size to maximize everyone’s interest.  The quality should be in the mid to upper-range, with a sterling band and aluminum tenon extension. The price I hoping for would be between $150 to $200 US and ship from SPC or SPEu, depending on your location.  More information will be forthcoming if there is sufficient response to justify asking K&P to work up a quote. I think the minimum number of pipes they will consider is around 50, but I’m actually not sure. Send an email to petegeek1896@gmail.com before May 1st if this is something you’d like to add to your rotation. PETERSON "NATURAL" AND NATURAL-FINISH PIPES: A SCHEMA WITH EXAMPLES Pete Geek James Robert contacted me not long ago with photos of an IFS 150 bulldog with a PETERSON’S over NATURAL stamp, a stamp which I’d never seen and thought hadn’t even been documented. A natural that early in the company’s history—1922-1937? Just three years after Charles Peterson’s death? I told James I’d update the current draft of The Peterson Pipe’s Identification Guide (in the orange-banded pages at the back) and then opened my revision and read this entry: Natural (c. 1922–37; 1953–57)  Rare stamp observed on pipes with com of IRISH over FREE STATE.  1953–57 seen on Rogers Imports pipes marked Killarney over NATURAL (a higher grade) with MADE IN IRELAND (forming a circle). Right. Well, my co-author Gary Malmberg, who has been tracking Peterson pipes for a few decades now, already knew this. He’s the one who documented the Irish Free State occurrence of the NATURAL stamp in the entry while I documented the KILLARNEY over NATURAL.  Be that as it may, I’ve never seen a photograph of an IFS NATURAL and knew everyone would like to see it, which got me to thinking that I’d like to put together what we can find about the NATURAL stamp and natural finishes on K&P pipes into a useful schema. As I said to the knowledgeable Fred Heim in a recent blog comment, do suggest corrections and emendations when you see or suspect mistakes have been made. SCHEMA  the occurrence of the NATURAL stamp without a line name, which occurs underneath “Peterson’s”; a line issued with a NATURAL stamp under the line name (e.g., Killarney over NATURAL), which seems to be the normal way the stamp has been used; a natural finish which may occur in a line that has other finishes;…