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4 photographsArchive Record FUH-276B-QKQ9-6
undetermined
Reference example
This pipe is documented here as an example for study — it is a record in the archive, not an item offered for sale. Everything below is what the piece itself, and the evidence around it, will honestly support.
Original stem
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Stem replaced or re-cut
No
Faridunhill standing declaration
Rim cleaned (no wood removed)
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Refinished
No
Faridunhill standing declaration
Chamber reamed
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Smoked
Yes
owner stated
Facts, not a grade. We do not score a pipe out of ten: a number would rank a restored pipe above an honest one, and restoration is exactly what this hobby prices down. Every line above is checkable by anyone holding the pipe. Lines marked Faridunhill standing declaration rest on our published, dated statement of shop practice (v1.0, 2026-07-29) — not on an inspection of this individual pipe. It is one document, in public, that you can hold us to.
This reference example documents a bent Rhodesian by Design Berlin, catalogued under the maker's shape number 37 and fitted with the 9mm filter system that has long been standard among German factory pipes. The bowl is rendered in a paneled treatment, in which flat facets are cut into the stummel's flanks, lending the traditionally rounded Rhodesian form a more angular, architectural character. The bent stem configuration places the bowl closer to the smoker's line of sight and shifts weight toward the hand, a geometry favoured in Continental production for its comfort in clench and grip alike.
Design Berlin is a German pipe-making concern whose output typifies the mid-market Continental tradition: machine-assisted production, shape-numbered catalogues, and near-universal adoption of the 9mm charcoal filter, a convention that German smokers have preferred since the mid-twentieth century. The Rhodesian shape itself descends from the bulldog family, distinguished by its squat, rounded bowl — often girdled by beadlines — and, in classic renderings, a diamond or oval shank. The paneled variant seen here is a deliberate stylistic departure that multiplies the shape's visual planes.
The 9mm filter bore is itself a soft dating and attribution clue: it anchors the pipe firmly within German and broader Central European manufacturing practice, where the filter tenon became a defining national convention. Design Berlin, like most German factory makers, did not employ a formal date-code system in its stampings, so individual examples cannot be assigned to a precise production year from nomenclature alone. Dating therefore rests on the shape-number catalogue placement and general production characteristics rather than any coded mark. On the present evidence — the owner's identification, the catalogue shape number 37, and the modern filter architecture — the era bracket remains honestly undetermined, recorded here as a documented estate example of German factory work in the Rhodesian idiom.
2023-05-24
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-05-24.
2023-05-24
Sold through eBay for USD 70. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 70sold 2023-05-24 · eBay
From 1 recorded sale — this pipe, this day. A single transaction is not a market price, and we will never print one as if it were.
The sample this sits in: Faridunhill has recorded 144 sales of Design Berlin between 2015–2026 — median $60, most falling between $27 and $124.
The date shown is the date of sale, not the date this page was published. Our own transaction record, published free. No buyer appears here — not a name, not initials, not a country. Counted across both of our channels — eBay 2015–2022 and Etsy 2022–2026 — so the series is continuous and a change of marketplace is never read as a change in price.
Nobody leaves empty-handed. If you hold the catalogue page, the dated advertisement, or a hallmarked sibling that closes one of these — or simply own this model and can measure yours — send it in. Contributions are checked, credited to you by name, and the record is updated with the date it changed.
Instagram post, 2023-05-24. Published to a third-party platform on that date and archived since — a timestamp we cannot move. It is evidence that this object existed and looked like this, then.
The photographs are the identity. 4 images of this pipe's grain, stamping and stem are held as its fingerprint. The handle above is only a handle: lose it, and the pipe can still be matched back to this record from its grain.