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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-3KW6-REV2-R
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 bent billiard from the Ben Wade marque, carried in the maker's OVATION line and finished in rustication — a deliberately textured, craggy surface worked into the bowl to give grip and visual depth, a treatment traditionally applied as an alternative to the smooth finishes reserved for cleaner-grained stummels. The estate is recorded within English production under the Ben Wade name. Ben Wade occupies a notable place in British pipe history. The firm was established in Leeds, Yorkshire, in the nineteenth century and built its reputation as one of the significant English factory makers, producing pipes across a wide range of classic shapes and finishes. The present example is classified by its owner among the English estates. The bent billiard is among the most enduring forms in the pipemaking canon: the upright, cylindrical billiard bowl joined to a shank and stem that curve downward, shifting the pipe's balance toward the jaw and giving a more relaxed hang than its straight counterpart. Rustication suits the shape well, lending a tactile, informal character to an otherwise formal classic. Dating a Ben Wade pipe presents the familiar challenge of English factory brands: the firm employed no systematic date code, so attribution rests on the style of the stampings, the line name, and the character of the work. Here the nomenclature — the Ben Wade marque paired with the OVATION line designation — anchors the identification, while the precise period of manufacture within the marque's long twentieth-century output remains an open bracket, honestly recorded as undetermined.
2022-11-24
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-24.
2023-01-09
Sold through Etsy for USD 99. 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 '20th century, era undetermined' -> undetermined; 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 99sold 2023-01-09 · 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 2299 sales of Ben Wade between 2015–2026 — median $48, most falling between $25 and $115.
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, 2022-11-24. 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.