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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-3DDY-DFPW-D
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 smooth-finished straight bulldog attributed to the London Crown brand and recorded as an English estate pipe, meaning it passed through prior ownership and use before entering the archive. The bulldog is among the most recognisable shapes in the pipe-making canon: its defining features are a bowl formed of two opposed conical sections meeting at a pronounced ridge, traditionally emphasised by one or two incised rings cut around the bowl's waist, paired with a diamond-section shank. In its straight configuration, as here, the shank and bit run in a single unbroken line from bowl to button, giving the shape a crisp, architectural profile that has made it a fixture of English catalogues since the late nineteenth century. The smooth finish indicates that the surface was polished and stained rather than sandblasted or rusticated, a treatment traditionally reserved for stummels whose grain merited open display. London Crown belongs to the broad family of London-stamped brands that traded on the city's reputation as the historic centre of the English pipe industry, an association built by the great Edwardian-era factories and sustained by countless workshops and trade names through the twentieth century. Such marques were frequently produced for export and for tobacconists' house trade, and detailed factory records for many of them are sparse. Dating rests on limited evidence. The source record transcribes no stampings, hallmarks, or date codes, and London Crown is not associated with a systematic factory dating scheme of the kind found on hallmarked silver-mounted pipes.
2022-12-03
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-03.
2023-01-05
Sold through Etsy for USD 45. 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 (1 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 45sold 2023-01-05 · 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 298 sales of London Crown between 2015–2026 — median $42, most falling between $22 and $132.
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, 2022-12-03. 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.