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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-3EHY-7TG3-J
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 miniature-size smoking pipe carrying the Pimpernelly name, worked in a smooth finish and executed in the classic straight configuration, in which the shank and stem lie on a single axis running directly from the base of the bowl to the bit. It entered the archive from an estate grouping, placing it firmly within the tradition of previously owned pipes that pass from one generation of smokers to the study of the next.
The miniature format itself has a long place in pipe history. Small-bowled pipes served smokers who wanted a short, concentrated smoke, and they were also produced as travelling pieces, as samples of a workshop's craft, and as novelties that displayed a carver's ability to render full pipe architecture at reduced scale. The smooth finish, as opposed to sandblasted or rusticated treatments, presents the surface of the stummel plainly, a choice that in the broader industry was generally reserved for material considered presentable without texturing.
The Pimpernelly marking belongs to the wide field of trade names that circulated through the twentieth-century pipe industry, many of which were applied by workshops and distributors rather than by the celebrated houses whose histories are thoroughly documented. Such names typically carried no factory date-coding system of the kind used by makers like Dunhill, so a pipe of this sort cannot be assigned a year of manufacture from its markings alone. Dating must instead rest on typology and provenance, and on that basis the era of this example remains honestly bracketed as undetermined.
2023-03-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-22.
2023-09-02
Sold through Etsy for USD 17. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 17sold 2023-09-02 · 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 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, 2023-03-22. 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. 7 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.