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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-456P-EVQT-5
Vintage, exact period 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 Peterson Sterling Silver straight billiard, shape number 107, presented in a smooth finish and drawn from an Irish estate. The billiard is the foundational form of the pipemaker's repertoire: a cylindrical bowl set at a right angle to a shank of roughly equal length, with a straight stem completing an uninterrupted line from bit to bowl. Shape 107 places this classic geometry within Peterson's numbered shape chart, where three-digit designations have long identified the house's standard forms. The Sterling Silver line takes its name from the hallmarked silver band fitted at the shank end, a signature embellishment that elevates the pipe above plainly finished stablemates while serving the practical purpose of reinforcing the mortise. Though this example is a conventional billiard rather than a System pipe, it belongs to the same Dublin workshop tradition that made Peterson synonymous with Irish pipemaking. The firm's silver-mounted pipes occupy a distinctive place in dating scholarship: Irish sterling silver is subject to assay, and bands struck with Dublin hallmarks can often be read against published hallmark tables to yield a year of assay, one of the few precise dating tools available to pipe historians. In the present record, the pipe is dated on the owner's characterisation as vintage, and the honest bracket must therefore remain a vintage Peterson of undetermined period, pending a reading of any hallmarks on the silver band itself. As a reference example, it documents the marriage of Peterson's most traditional shape with the house's silver-band presentation, a combination produced across many decades of the firm's output.
2023-02-28
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-28.
2023-03-04
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 (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 135sold 2023-03-04 · 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, 2023-02-28. 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.