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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-3GDM-BUEW-8
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 Danish estate freehand from the workshop of Preben Holm, presented in the Hand Cut line with a smooth finish and carrying the numeric grade 3. As a freehand, the pipe belongs to a tradition in which the carver follows the grain and natural contours of the block rather than conforming to a catalogue shape chart, so each example is effectively unique in profile, rim treatment, and stance. Preben Holm occupies a notable place in twentieth-century pipe history. Holm's workshop grew into a substantial operation, and he is widely remembered for producing the celebrated Ben Wade freehands distributed by Lane Ltd. His graded lines, including Hand Cut examples marked with numeric grades, reflect the workshop's internal sorting of quality and workmanship. Dating a Preben Holm pipe relies on line names, grading conventions, and stamping styles rather than any factory date code, as the workshop never employed a systematic dating stamp. Within the archive, the pipe serves as a representative document of the Danish freehand school: hand-shaped , individual grading, and the workshop culture that carried Copenhagen's carving tradition to an international audience.
2024-03-17
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-03-17.
2024-04-04
Sold through Etsy for USD 149. 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 'circa 1960s–1989; 4 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (3 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 149sold 2024-04-04 · 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 23 sales of Preben Holm between 2015–2024 — median $95, most falling between $44 and $149.
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, 2024-03-17. 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.