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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-2URD-4V87-T
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 archive record documents a Carey Magic Inch straight billiard finished in sandblast, an example of one of the twentieth century's better-known American system pipes. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe-making canon: a cylindrical bowl set at roughly a right angle to a straight shank of comparable length, here rendered with a textured blasted surface that follows the natural grain structure of the stummel. The straight configuration places the stem in line with the shank, the most traditional presentation of the form. The Magic Inch was the signature product of the E. A. Carey company, an American mail-order pipe house that rose to prominence in the mid-twentieth century largely on the strength of this design. The system takes its name from the roughly one-inch condensing chamber built into the shank-and-stem junction, an arrangement covered by patent and promoted as a means of cooling and drying the smoke before it reaches the smoker. The line historically employed a replaceable paper sleeve within that chamber to absorb moisture, and the system's distinctive engineering made the Magic Inch one of the most heavily advertised pipes of its era, sold widely through magazine campaigns and direct mail. A patent number functions as a terminus post quem — the pipe cannot predate the grant, and its presence places manufacture within the period when Carey actively marked production with this patent.
2023-02-02
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-02.
2023-05-06
Sold through Etsy for USD 37. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
6 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 'post-1966; 2 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 37sold 2023-05-06 · 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 28 sales of Carey between 2016–2024 — median $30, most falling between $19 and $38.
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, 2023-02-02. 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. 8 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.