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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-3KWH-735M-Q
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 Lorenzo pipe of the Verbano line, executed as a smooth bent billiard and carrying the shape number 8680. The bent billiard is one of the most enduring forms in the pipe-making canon: a cylindrical bowl of classic billiard proportions joined to a shank and stem that curve downward, shifting the pipe's weight toward the jaw and allowing it to hang comfortably. The smooth finish presented here leaves the surface of the stummel fully visible rather than obscuring it under sandblast or rustication. The pipe is fitted for a 9mm filter, a system strongly associated with Continental European production, in which a disposable filter — most commonly activated charcoal — is seated in the mortise between shank and stem to condition the smoke. Lorenzo is an Italian marque, and Italy stands alongside England, France, and Denmark as one of the historic centres of pipe production. Dating this example rests on the documented markings alone: the Verbano line name and the four-digit shape number. Neither constitutes a factory date code, and Lorenzo, like most Italian makers, did not employ a systematic year-stamping practice comparable to the hallmarked silver of some English houses. In such cases an era can only be narrowed by cross-referencing line names against period catalogues, a step the present record does not attempt. The pipe is therefore archived as an Italian estate piece of undetermined era, its identity resting on the owner's attribution of brand, line, shape, and origin as stated at the time of documentation.
2023-03-29
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-29.
2023-03-31
Sold through Etsy for USD 44. 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 44sold 2023-03-31 · 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 212 sales of Lorenzo between 2016–2026 — median $44, most falling between $25 and $70.
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, 2023-03-29. 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. 9 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.