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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-469N-RQ72-3
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 documents a Peterson Dracula in the sandblasted finish, executed in the house's shape 999 and fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. The sandblast treatment strips away the softer grain of the wood to expose a rugged, tactile relief across the bowl and shank, a finish Peterson has offered across many of its series as a counterpart to smooth-polished stock. The 999 is a celebrated entry in that chart: a compact bent form with a distinctive double-beaded bowl profile, long a favourite within the Peterson canon and frequently reissued across the firm's themed lines. The Dracula series draws its identity from Bram Stoker, the Dublin-born author of the gothic novel, pairing dark finishes with red-toned accents in homage to an Irish literary figure — a characteristically Petersonian gesture of national storytelling applied to a smoking instrument. The fishtail designation carries real meaning within this maker's vocabulary. On dating, Peterson has historically used no systematic factory date code on standard production, so individual examples are bracketed by line, stamp style, and catalogue history rather than by a stamped year. The Dracula series itself is a modern addition to the Peterson range, which places this example within the firm's contemporary output. Absent further stamping evidence, the honest bracket for this piece remains the current production era of the Dracula line.
2023-04-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-21.
2023-04-24
Sold through eBay for USD 95. 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 (era 'undetermined; Dracula series bel' -> 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 95sold 2023-04-24 · eBay
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, 2023-04-21. 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. 8 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.