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themselves making and selling quality Meerschaum and Briar Root pipes. | themselves making and selling quality Meerschaum and Briar Root pipes. | ||
In the year 1875, Charles Peterson, a large young Latvian immigrant from Riga in his early twenties, walked into the Kapp Brothers Grafton Street premises with a revolutionary pipe and ambitious plans for the future. Declaring to the brothers that he could make better pipes than they could. | |||
Kapp Brothers Grafton Street premises with a revolutionary pipe and ambitious plans for the future. | |||
Armed with an imaginative flair for making pipes and a craftsman's background. There and then, Peterson suggested that the brothers go into partnership with him to turn his innovative pipe dream into the world's dream pipe. They agreed and Peterson not only proved himself correct, but became the third partner in the fledgling firm. The company was then renamed Kapp & Peterson. Thus the legend was born!<br> | |||
and a craftsman's background. There and then, Peterson suggested that the brothers go into | |||
partnership with him to turn his pipe dream into the world's dream pipe. They agreed and Peterson | |||
not only proved himself correct, but became the third partner in the fledgling firm. The company | |||
was renamed Kapp & Peterson.<br> | |||
Kapp and Peterson went on to become Dublin's most fashionable and respected manufacturer and | Kapp and Peterson went on to become Dublin's most fashionable and respected manufacturer and | ||
purveyors of fine smoking products. Pipe and cigar smokers would stroll down to the elegant | purveyors of fine smoking products. Pipe and cigar smokers would stroll down to the elegant | ||