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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-3VG7-G2KA-M
1992
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 French-made estate pipe recorded under the CHAP marque, from the Bruyere Extra line and carrying the designation P.O.Y 1992. It takes the form of a smooth, straight cutty, and its most distinctive constructional feature is a block meerschaum insert set within the bruyère bowl — a hybrid arrangement that pairs the structural strength of on the exterior with a meerschaum smoking surface within the chamber. Meerschaum-lined s of this kind were developed to offer the cool, dry smoking character and gradual colouring associated with meerschaum while retaining the durability and familiar handling of a pipe, and the specification of block meerschaum, cut from solid material rather than pressed from composite, places the insert in the higher tier of such linings. The cutty is among the oldest shapes in the pipe-making canon, descended directly from the clay pipes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its hallmarks are a forward-canted, slightly conical bowl on a slim straight shank, a silhouette that carries a strong historical resonance and is comparatively uncommon in twentieth-century production, where more upright billiards and bulldogs dominated factory catalogues. Rendered here in a smooth finish, the shape presents the grain of the bruyère plainly across its surfaces. Dating rests on the pipe's own designation. On that basis the record assigns this example firmly to 1992, with its French origin and CHAP branding resting on the owner's account. It stands in the archive as a documented instance of a year-marked French cutty with meerschaum-insert construction.
2023-05-02
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-05-02.
2023-05-23
Sold through Etsy for USD 49. 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 (1 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 49sold 2023-05-23 · 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 30 sales of CHAP between 2019–2026 — median $37, most falling between $23 and $45.
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, 2023-05-02. 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.