1981 PETERSON MARK TWAIN ORIGINAL UNNUMBERED SMOOTH SILVER IRISH ESTATE PIPE

Preowned condition. Does have a few scuffs and fading of stamps as is typical in a preloved pipe. See photos for detail. Has been reamed and swabbed with alcohol. Cleaning to your personal preference after acquiring is recommended. Stem will be wiped with obsidian oil before shipping. Please ask any questions you may have. Kapp & Peterson first issued the Mark Twain, their most famous commemorative, in 1981 with a numbered and unnumbered edition (this one). Much of the story of how it came about and most of the versions in which it has been issued is told and seen in the book “The Peterson Pipe” by Mark Irwin & Gary Malmberg. The connection between Twain and K&P goes back to their very first catalog, which used a testimonial on pipe-smoking written by Twain. While he didn’t mention the Peterson Patent System, the testimonial seems to infer by its inclusion that Twain was smoking them as early as 1895.