The story
Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp, German immigrants to Ireland from Nuremberg, founded the famed Kapp Brothers store on Grafton Street, Dublin in 1865. Shortly thereafter, a Latvian immigrant, Charles Peterson became the third partner in the firm.
Originally based at 53 Grafton Street the business moved to 56 Lower Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) on the corner with Bachelors Walk shortly after the Easter Rising. The name Kapp & Peterson Ltd can still be seen on the parapet of this building and the letters KP are formed in timber paneling on the shopfront.
For 30 years, Peterson was run by Thomas Palmer and made about 100,000 pipes annually that were distributed all over the world. In 2018, Laudisi Enterprises - parent company to both Smokingpipes.com and Cornell & Diehl - announced that they were purchasing Peterson
From Wikipedia’s article on Peterson Pipes, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4