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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-3G84-TVDJ-5
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 reference example is a custom Poker from Pegasus Pipe Co., worked in morta and described by its maker as a short smoke — a compact pipe intended for a briefer bowl than a full-sized companion piece. Morta, often called bog oak or abonos, is among the most distinctive materials in pipe making: it is ancient oak recovered from peat bogs and riverbeds, where centuries or millennia of submersion in mineral-rich, oxygen-poor water gradually darken and semi-fossilise the wood. The result is a dense, naturally blackened material prized by pipe makers for its neutral smoking character, its heat tolerance, and the deep charcoal-to-ebony colouring that requires no stain to achieve. Because usable morta must be salvaged, dried slowly over long periods, and carefully culled for cracks, it remains a specialist material worked chiefly by artisan and small-workshop makers rather than large factories.
The Poker shape to which this pipe belongs is one of the classic sitting designs of the pipe canon: a cylindrical bowl with a flat bottom that allows the pipe to stand upright on its own, typically paired with a straight, level shank. The form is functional and unadorned by nature, which suits the austere, monolithic look of morta particularly well — the flat-bottomed cylinder presents the material's dark grain in broad, uninterrupted planes.
As a custom piece from a contemporary workshop, the pipe carries no factory date-coding system of the kind used by large historical marques, and no stampings are documented for this example. Dating therefore rests on the maker attribution alone, and the record accordingly assigns an undetermined era bracket. The pipe is preserved in this archive as a representative example of modern custom morta work in the Poker form, illustrating both a salvaged ancient material and one of pipe making's most enduring sitter shapes.
2024-04-05
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-04-05.
2024-04-28
Sold through Etsy for USD 290. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
6 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 290sold 2024-04-28 · 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, 2024-04-05. 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. 10 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.