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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-2EQN-RR9B-6
Era 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 Peterson Kildare in the house shape numbered 6, fitted with a silver mount at the shank and finished with the maker's signature P-Lip mouthpiece. The pairing of a metal-mounted shank with the P-Lip bit is among the most recognisable configurations in the Peterson catalogue, and the Kildare line — named, like several Peterson series, for an Irish county — occupies the firm's range of smooth-finished production pipes carrying standard shape numbers. Kapp & Peterson was established in Dublin in the nineteenth century and remains the pre-eminent name in Irish pipemaking. The P-Lip on this example marks it immediately as a genuine expression of the house style rather than a generic Irish-made pipe, and the silver mount reflects Peterson's long tradition of banding its shanks in precious and white metals. Shape 6 belongs to Peterson's numbered shape chart, a system the firm has used across many of its lines so that a given number denotes a consistent bowl-and-shank geometry regardless of finish or series name. Dating a Peterson depends chiefly on the wording of its stampings and, where a silver band is hallmarked, on the assay marks struck into the metal, which can fix a year of manufacture with precision. Because no stampings or hallmarks were transcribed for this record, the pipe is archived on the strength of its stated identity alone, and its era is left honestly undetermined pending examination of the marks themselves.
2023-07-14
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-14.
2023-07-19
Sold through eBay for USD 100. 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 (era 'not_recorded' -> undetermined; 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 100sold 2023-07-19 · 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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2023-07-14. 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. 10 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.