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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-2HBP-MM7W-X
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 is a KIKO bent billiard, worked in a smooth finish and fitted with a meerschaum insert lining the tobacco chamber. The bent billiard is one of the most enduring forms in pipe making: a cylindrical bowl of classic billiard proportion joined to a curved shank and stem, a geometry that drops the bowl below the sight line and shifts weight toward the hand and jaw. The insert construction places a block-meerschaum sleeve within the bowl, so the chamber wall is porous white mineral rather than wood — a hybrid approach intended to combine meerschaum's cool, absorbent smoking qualities with the durability of a conventional outer bowl. KIKO occupies a distinctive niche in twentieth-century pipe history as an East African producer. The mid-century discovery and commercial exploitation of meerschaum deposits in the Amboseli region of East Africa created, for the first time, a significant source of the mineral outside Anatolia, and workshops in the territory then known as Tanganyika built an export trade around it. KIKO pipes of this period were marketed internationally as an African alternative to Turkish meerschaum and to conventional , and the insert-lined billiard was a staple of that catalogue. Dating rests on the country-of-origin marking itself.
2023-03-15
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-15.
2023-10-14
Sold through Etsy for USD 25. 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 'circa mid-1950s to 1964; 3 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 25sold 2023-10-14 · 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 10 sales of KIKO between 2020–2023 — median $45, most falling between $25 and $65.
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, 2023-03-15. 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.