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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-3EVQ-M2HR-6
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
No
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 Peterson System pipe in the 305 shape, presented in a smooth finish and fitted with the marque's signature P-lip mouthpiece together with a 9mm filter system. The combination of System engineering and a 9mm filter chamber places the pipe within Peterson's continental-market System production, where the graduated-bore stem accepts a standard charcoal filter. The System concept rests on two related innovations: a reservoir sunk below the airway at the base of the mortise, intended to condense and trap moisture before it reaches the smoker, and the P-lip mouthpiece, whose upward-angled orifice directs smoke toward the roof of the mouth rather than at the tongue. Together these features defined a distinctly Irish approach to pipe engineering and remain the company's most recognisable contribution to the craft. The 305 designation belongs to Peterson's System shape numbering, in which the three-digit codes identify established bent forms within the graded System ranges. Shape numbers of this series have been carried across many decades of production, which is why the number alone cannot fix a year of manufacture. Dating a Peterson conventionally proceeds from the country-of-manufacture stamp — whose wording shifted across the twentieth century as Ireland's political designation changed — and, on silver-mounted examples, from Dublin hallmarks that can pinpoint a year.
2023-02-14
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-14.
2023-02-24
Sold through eBay for USD 100. 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 (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 100sold 2023-02-24 · eBay
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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2023-02-14. 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.