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Some Peterson pipe history
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<blockquote data-quote="Zeno Marx" data-source="post: 570437" data-attributes="member: 1211"><p>I didn't know which Peterson thread I should use, and this could be a regional/personal thing.</p><p></p><p>I cannot believe the prices and demand for Peterson meerschaums. They were considered junk by my mentoring crowd and in our region. There was a shop in Champaign/Urbana, IL that must've had a dozen used ones. He couldn't give them away, and I don't know why he kept accepting them in trades. It was the same down south, where we regularly ran into them at flea markets and at swaps for $15...with no takers. And I knew a few Peterson fanatics. They wouldn't touch them with their pretentious fingers. To see them bumping near the $200 ceiling is mindboggling to me. I can't remember if I ever owned one or smoked one. I'm not saying they're bad pipes. I just can't believe how they've gone from rags to riches. *however, I will say this: they are a heavy pipe. African meerschaum is a heavy thing. I might be mistaken, but I don't remember any of them being light pipes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zeno Marx, post: 570437, member: 1211"] I didn't know which Peterson thread I should use, and this could be a regional/personal thing. I cannot believe the prices and demand for Peterson meerschaums. They were considered junk by my mentoring crowd and in our region. There was a shop in Champaign/Urbana, IL that must've had a dozen used ones. He couldn't give them away, and I don't know why he kept accepting them in trades. It was the same down south, where we regularly ran into them at flea markets and at swaps for $15...with no takers. And I knew a few Peterson fanatics. They wouldn't touch them with their pretentious fingers. To see them bumping near the $200 ceiling is mindboggling to me. I can't remember if I ever owned one or smoked one. I'm not saying they're bad pipes. I just can't believe how they've gone from rags to riches. *however, I will say this: they are a heavy pipe. African meerschaum is a heavy thing. I might be mistaken, but I don't remember any of them being light pipes. [/QUOTE]
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