Daily Archives: January 27, 2015

Peterson’s Made for Shannon Airport 606


I read this refurb by Mark with great interest as I wanted to know about this particular line of Peterson Pipes and what he would do with the damage. Thanks Mark for letting me reblog it on the rebornpipes blog.

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Here is a Peterson’s Shannon Airport 606 with the made in Ireland circle format. The circle format means pre-republic but being made for Shannon Airport must not be from that far back but I didn’t research it any further.  
This pipe came from a Facebook  forum member who wanted it restored to a smoke able condition. He was gifted a bag of pipes and this was one of the

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Every man has a right to a Mastercraft Pipe – A Mastercraft Pipe Catalogue


I recently posted a blog about cleaning up a Mastercraft De Luxe billiard and received an email from Andrew Selking telling me that he had a Mastercraft catalogue from the 1930’s and he sent it to me as an attachment. We both thought it would be great to post it here for the ongoing information of refurbishers who like to know a bit of the history of the pipes they are working on. Here is the brochure for your enjoyment. Thanks Andrew.MC 2 (4)

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