The Nurnberg brothers Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp opened their tobacco shop for business in 1865 at Grafton Street, Dublin. Friedrich & Heinrich, who christened their shop simply 'Kapp Brothers', soon made a name for themselves making and selling quality Meerschaum and Briar Root pipes. Charles Peterson walked into Kapp Brothers Grafton Street premises armed with a revolutionary pipe and suggested that the brothers go into partnership with him to turn his 'pipe dream' into the 'world's dream pipe.' They agreed and the company was renamed Kapp & Peterson. Kapp and Peterson went on to become Dublin's most fashionable and respected manufacturer and purveyor of fine smoking products.