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14 photographsArchive Record FUH-2CKU-R2YG-7
Loewe Original Inverness Smooth Lovat Estate Pipe, Vest Pocket Size, Smoked Once
undetermined
Dating: Owner-statedEngland14 photographs
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.
Attribute checklist
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.
The entry
A small, clean Loewe lovat from one of the oldest pipe houses in London: the Original series, stamped with the shape name Inverness, in vest pocket size and smoked only once.
THE PIPE This is a smooth straight lovat with a vulcanite saddle stem and a fishtail bit. It takes no filter. The briar has a smooth orange-brown finish, shown in the photos. At 127 mm long and 30 g it is a true vest pocket pipe: light in the hand and easy to carry, with a full-size chamber of 20 mm by 41 mm.
STAMPS - Left shank: L&Co in an oval, with ORIGINAL below it - Right shank: LOEWE / LONDON W. - Underside: INVERNESS - Stem: L&Co in an oval - A number 375 is also noted on the pipe. The stamps are shown in the close-up photos.
THE MAKER Loewe & Co. was founded in 1856 in the Haymarket, London. In 1920 the company was bought by Civic, but the quality and the stamps of Loewe pipes stayed the same until 1964. The L&Co oval on the shank and on the stem, together with "Loewe London W.", is the house mark collectors look for.
DATING Two stamps on this pipe give its window. Loewe introduced its first series names in 1955: Centurion, Original and Old English. So the ORIGINAL stamp means 1955 or later. Loewe stamped town shape names such as Inverness under the shank until about 1964 to 1968, when three-digit shape numbers replaced the names. Together they place this pipe in about 1955 to 1968. The pipe historian Lankton warns that some Original-stamped pipes may have been made in the Civic period after 1964, so the exact year inside that window cannot be read from the stamps alone.
CONDITION Pre-smoked, in excellent condition: it has been smoked once. Please see the photos for the condition.
MEASUREMENTS - Length: 127 mm (5.00 in) - Bowl height: 47 mm (1.85 in) - Bowl width: 34 mm (1.34 in) - Chamber diameter: 20 mm (0.79 in) - Chamber depth: 41 mm (1.61 in) - Weight: 30 g (1.06 oz)
Sources: the Faridunhill Loewe reference file, built from the Pipedia pages on Loewe and the Lankton and Farrent accounts of the Loewe eras.
The log
2026-11-09
Logged from the Faridunhill shop - photographed and listed on faridunhill.com, 2026-11-09.
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
What this record still doesn't carry
- The attribute checklist is open on: original stem, stem replaced or re-cut, topped. These are facts, not opinions — anyone holding this pipe can close them.
- The stampings and attribution here are as reported with the piece. A second, independent source — a catalogue page, a dated advertisement, a hallmarked sibling — is what would raise this record.
- No shape number recorded — the maker's own catalogue designation for this form is still open.
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.
The witness
Faridunhill shop post, 2026-11-09. 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. 14 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.
Handle FUH-2CKU-R2YG-7Brand LoeweDating Owner-stated