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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-42X8-BHTU-H
2021
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
No
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 Peterson of Dublin pipe from the firm's Christmas 2021 issue, rendered in the Squire shape of the celebrated Sherlock Holmes Series and finished in rustication. The mouthpiece is of the fishtail pattern, the conventional open-slot bit that Peterson offers as an alternative to its proprietary P-Lip design. The Sherlock Holmes Series, introduced by Peterson in the late twentieth century to honour Conan Doyle's detective — a character famously devoted to his pipe — comprises a family of large, character-rich shapes each named for a figure or element of the Holmes canon. The Squire belongs to this family, and like its companions in the series it exemplifies the generous proportions and strong visual presence for which the line is known. Rustication, a deliberately carved, textured surface treatment, gives such pipes a rugged tactile character and a matte, craggy appearance distinct from smooth or sandblasted finishes. Dating of this piece rests on its identity as a Christmas edition. Here the edition itself is the date. The attribution and the year rest on the owner's statement, and on that basis the pipe is recorded to 2021, a modern-era production from Peterson's contemporary Dublin workshop.
2023-02-16
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-16.
2023-02-24
Sold through Etsy for USD 135. 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 135sold 2023-02-24 · 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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2023-02-16. 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.