bent bulldog
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Hello fellow pipers: Like many collectors of classic shape pipes I have a preconceived bias in favor of collecting and smoking pipes from the British Isles and Ireland. Now, I know having collected these things for over 45 years that yes, there may be some truth to the rumors one hears about Dunhills actually being turned in Italy or Petersons being turned somewhere on the continent, possibly Spain. However, even knowing that, there is something enticing and attractive to impossible anglophiles like me about the shank of a briar bearing the inscription "made in London" or "made in England, and in Peterson's case "made in Ireland" or "made in the Republic of Ireland" or even better "made in the Irish Free State". However, lately, I guess in the past couple of years those words have been absent from the newer Petersons. The newer pipes usually have a rather weasely wording like "Peterson's of Dublin" which really doesn't say where the pipe is made. right? So the obvious question for the coterie is does anybody out there have any ideas about where these pipes are made and how much of the pipe making process is completed outside of Ireland before the pipe is completed? Thanks for the help.