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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-27NF-88XV-T
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 is a smooth-finished bent billiard from the Italian marque Silvano, bearing the line designation LAVENA and fitted with a 9mm filter system, documented as an estate pipe of Italian origin. The billiard is the foundational shape of the modern pipe canon: a cylindrical bowl of roughly equal height and shank length, here rendered in its bent configuration, in which the shank and stem curve downward and back toward the smoker. The bent billiard trades the austere geometry of the straight version for a more relaxed hang and a lower centre of gravity in the hand, and it has long been among the most widely produced forms in every European pipe-making nation. The smooth finish leaves the surface polished and unadorned, presenting the material directly rather than through rustication or sandblasting. The 9mm filter bore is the defining technical feature of this example. That standard — a shank drilled to accept a disposable 9mm charcoal or paper filter — became dominant in German-speaking markets and spread broadly through continental European manufacture, and its presence places this pipe firmly within that filter-smoking tradition rather than the unfiltered convention favoured in Britain and much of North America. Italy itself occupies a central place in twentieth- and twenty-first-century pipe making, with production ranging from large factory operations to small artisan workshops, and Italian makers commonly produced filter-equipped models for export to continental markets. Silvano belongs to this broader Italian production landscape; the marque carries no widely documented factory date-coding system, so dating must rest on external evidence.
2022-11-15
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-15.
2023-02-27
Sold through Etsy for USD 46. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 46sold 2023-02-27 · Etsy
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 15 sales of Silvano between 2020–2026 — median $45, most falling between $29 and $89.
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, 2022-11-15. 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. 6 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.