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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-32XE-8HBR-V
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 John Aylesbury smooth straight brandy, catalogued under shape number 9056 and fitted for the 9mm filter system. The brandy is one of the classic chart shapes of the smoking pipe: a bowl that swells outward from a narrow heel toward a broader rim, echoing the profile of a brandy snifter, here executed on a straight axis with the shank and stem carried in a single line from the bowl. The smooth finish leaves the surface of the stummel polished and unbroken, presenting the material plainly rather than through rustication or blast texture. The 9mm designation indicates that the airway is bored to accept the standard 9mm charcoal filter, a system that became the dominant convention among Continental European pipe houses in the second half of the twentieth century and remains a hallmark of German-market pipes in particular. This example entered the archive through a Danish estate categorisation. Dating rests on general typology rather than a factory code, as John Aylesbury pipes carry no systematic date stamping: the shape number 9056 ties the pipe to the brand's numbered catalogue range, and the 9mm filter bore places it within the era in which that system was standard equipment. Taken together, the evidence supports an honest bracket of the late twentieth to early twenty-first century, with a more precise year undetermined. The pipe is preserved as a reference example of the brandy shape as interpreted under the John Aylesbury marque.
2023-05-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-05-01.
2024-01-16
Sold through Etsy for USD 37. 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 'Late 20th to early 21st century ' -> 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 37sold 2024-01-16 · 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 27 sales of John Aylesbury between 2018–2025 — median $36, most falling between $18 and $55.
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, 2023-05-01. 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. 9 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.