The Faridunhill Pipe Encyclopedia

The Record

Dating guides and brand histories written from the primary record — makers' catalogues, hallmark charts, period newspapers, and the makers' own recorded words. Every dating claim carries its source and an honest bracket. When we learn better, the entry changes and the changelog says so.

How We Work

Whatever your pipe's situation — worn stamps, a missing shape number, no nomenclature at all — bring it. Nobody leaves empty-handed: we will do our best to date it, and you will get the most honest answer we can give.

Behind that promise sits a method: wide brackets over guesses, disputed facts carrying both sources, and each entry ending with what we don'tyet know — published deliberately, because an honest gap invites the collector who can close it.

Entries

Brand Dating Guides

Peterson of Dublin: Dating a Peterson Pipe

Peterson pipes can often be dated within a few years — sometimes to an exact year — from four independent marks: the country-of-manufacture stamp, the Dublin silver hallmark, the shape number, and the line name. This guide reads each one honestly, brackets included.

Updated 2026-07-23 · sourced & changelogged

The Shelf Grows

New entries publish on a regular rhythm, each one built the same way: from the dating cabinets we maintain on every major maker, fed by our growing reference archive of catalogues, period advertisements, hallmark charts, and recorded interviews with the people who made the pipes. If a subject matters to your collection, ask — the queue listens. Write to us.