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===A revised history of the Kapp & Peterson brand of pipe makers=== | ===A revised history of the Kapp & Peterson brand of pipe makers=== | ||
Until recently very little was known about the early history and the emergence of the Kapp and Peterson pipes as a brand. The following information was previously quoted widely in many publications as being the factual version of the firm's early beginnings. | Until recently very little was known about the early history and the emergence of the Kapp and Peterson pipes as a brand. The following information was previously quoted widely in many publications as being the factual version of the firm's early beginnings. | ||
It was not long before Charles Peterson, a large young Latvian immigrant from Riga, walked into Kapp Brothers Grafton Street premises armed with a revolutionary pipe and ambitious plans for the future, declaring that he could make better pipes than they could. Armed with an imaginative flair for pipes 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.”'' | ''“The Nurnberg brothers Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp, whose elegant Dublin tobacconist first opened for business in 1865 on Grafton Street, Dublin could scarcely have dreamt that they would participate in the birth of a legend.'' | ||
''Friedrich & Heinrich, who christened their shop simply 'Kapp Brothers', soon made a name for themselves making and selling quality Meerschaum and Briar Root pipes.'' | |||
''It was not long before Charles Peterson, a large young Latvian immigrant from Riga, walked into Kapp Brothers Grafton Street premises armed with a revolutionary pipe and ambitious plans for the future, declaring that he could make better pipes than they could. Armed with an imaginative flair for pipes 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.”'' | |||
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File:Old Pete Smoker.JPG|A Glasgow Gentleman smoking a Peterson Pipe, dated 1910 | File:Old Pete Smoker.JPG|A Glasgow Gentleman smoking a Peterson Pipe, dated 1910 | ||