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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-3VN4-38H3-B
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 small smooth-finished churchwarden from GBD's Comtesse line, stamped London Made and bearing the shape number 1002. The churchwarden form is among the oldest silhouettes in the pipe canon, defined by an exceptionally long stem that carries the bowl well away from the face; the extended smoke channel cools the draw, and in this example the format is rendered at a compact scale, pairing a small bowl with the characteristic elongated stem. GBD occupies a significant place in pipe history. English production began in the early twentieth century, and pipes stamped London Made attest to manufacture at the firm's English works rather than its French operation. Dating a GBD presents the challenge common to most English factory pipes: the firm used no systematic date-coding on its stampings. Attribution therefore rests on the nomenclature itself — the brand mark, the line name, the country-of-manufacture stamp, and the four-digit shape number, a numbering convention consistent with GBD's twentieth-century catalogue practice. The London Made stamp confines the piece to the English factory era, but within that span the stampings alone do not isolate a decade. The honest conclusion is a twentieth-century English attribution, otherwise undetermined. As an estate piece, this pipe entered the archive from prior use, and it stands in the encyclopedia as a representative example of GBD's London production and of the churchwarden form executed in a small format.
2022-10-25
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-25.
2022-11-09
Sold through Etsy for USD 49. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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, 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 49sold 2022-11-09 · 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 46 sales of GBD between 2016–2026 — median $40, most falling between $28 and $65.
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, 2022-10-25. 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.