I clean the pipe with paper towels and pipe cleaners after almost every smoke almost. Once in a while (every third month) l clean it thoroughly with a pipe cleaning fluid and polish it up with some paraffin oil, which works really well and gives a good look both to steam and pipe. It is interesting that most of the info on the Shannon pipe and the Shannon Airport pipe seems to be parallel. It also seems to me that Mark and Gary do not make the distinction very clear on the two. They also note that the pipe had a black vulcanite stem with a gold “P” stamped on it as this one does but the pipe I am working on has an acrylic stem as noted in the opening paragraph of this section. The information given above has an element of confusion for me.
The two most famous and popular issues probably being the System and the Classic shape pipes. All of the pipes in this group can be purchased for relatively little cost and probably accounts peterson pipes for the majority of Petersons world wide pipe sales. The higher grade Celtic natural finish series of pipes is not cheap to purchase, being at the top end of the higher grade pipes.
The pipe bowls on these modern versions are all based on the Sherlock Holmes shapes. 1987 saw the introduction and Issue of the first Sherlock Holmes ‘Original’ Series of pipes. The Sherlock Holmes series is probably the most successful series captain black tobacco of pipes ever introduced by Peterson in terms of numbers. It was first issued to honour Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous fictitious detective character, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is perhaps the most famous pipe smoking character in fiction.
The Peterson System pipes are the standard bearers of the Peterson pipe family, famous for the excellent smoking pleasure they provide. Often imitated but never equaled, the Peterson System smokes dry, cool and sweet, thanks to the scientific effectiveness of the original design. The heart of the System is the unique graduated bore in the mouthpiece.
In 1988 Peterson decided to issue a special Millennium Edition set of two pipes commemorating the City of Dublin’s 1000 year founding ( ). The first pipe was a Dublin shape (what else!) peterson pipes and an Oom Paul. Each pipe was sold individually featuring a special sterling silver hallmarked band and came with a ribbon wrapped parchment scroll in a blue presentation box.
Should you have a System pipe with this metal extension, do not remove it for it will make the System function properly and give you a dryer smoke. Over the years there have been a few large System pipes Produced by Peterson which could be considered to be included as ‘House’ pipes. In the early Peterson catalogues, circa 1900, they were advertising XXL systems which were similar in size to the modern ‘House’ pipes. Around 1990 Peterson were asked by a large UK retailer, i.e. Bonds of Oxford St. London, to commission the making of a special giant classic bent pipe, with dimensions of, length 17cms, bowl height, 6.1cm, bowl chamber depth 5.5cms, internal bowl diameter 2.1cm.
This happened to me with one of the Kaffir Antique Reproduction pipes the second or third time I smoked it. There was no visible evidence inside the chamber, just a large black splotch on the outside front of the bowl. The next pipe I have chosen is smooth finished Peterson’s “Sterling Silver” pipe. This one is a 53 Lovat that has a rich coloured finish with amazing grain around the bowl sides and shank. It also came to us from the estate of Anglican minister that was a great friend of mine here in Canada. I was in the airport in Hong Kong when his daughter contacted me to tell me of his death and asked if I wanted to take on his pipes.
He also sent a second email with a description of what each pipe needed. You might think a pipe is somehow ruined once it’s had a small burn in the chamber. But if you catch the burn in time you can still enjoy a lifetime of smoking that pipe and will probably forget at some point that it ever had a problem. Recipes are found on almost every forum, but the idea is simply to take cigar ash, crush it in a mortar or some other way, then begin to add a few drops of water at a time until you get a thick dark gray mud. It can’t be too thin or too thick, but it doesn’t take much experimentation to figure it out. You can use the spoon on a czech tool to apply it to the inside of the chamber, but I prefer simply the pad of my finger, which can feel what my eyes can’t see as well as make a smooth wall over the smallest area necessary.
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