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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-472P-D8Y4-M
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.
The pipe preserved in this record is a smooth-finished paneled billiard catalogued under the Holiday name with the Playboy designation, exactly as the identification was received when the pipe entered the archive from the estate trade. The billiard is the foundational shape of the modern pipe canon: a broadly cylindrical bowl set at close to a right angle atop a straight shank, its proportions so standardized that nearly every other shape in the repertoire is measured against it. The paneled variant takes that baseline form and cuts flat facets into the circumference of the bowl, replacing the familiar round profile with a sequence of crisp planes meeting at defined edges. Paneling asks more of the shaping process than a conventional round bowl, since each facet must be cut evenly and symmetrically without thinning the chamber wall unevenly, and the result is a pipe with a distinctly architectural presence — light catching each plane separately rather than rolling continuously around the bowl. The smooth finish reinforces this effect: with no rustication or sandblast texture to interrupt the surface, the geometry of the panels alone defines the pipe's visual character.
The dating of this example rests entirely on the marque identification under which it was received. Neither name pairing was accompanied by documented nomenclature, shape numbers, or hallmarked fittings that would permit the kind of stamp-by-stamp analysis used to bracket pipes from factories that employed systematic date codes. The archive therefore assigns an open era bracket and preserves the identification at owner-stated confidence, treating the record as a placeholder around which future documentation — stampings, catalogue correspondence, or comparative examples of the Playboy designation under the Holiday name — may eventually allow the bracket to be narrowed. Until such evidence surfaces, the pipe stands in the encyclopedia as a reference example of the smooth paneled billiard form itself.
2022-10-15
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-15.
2022-12-12
Sold through Etsy for USD 26. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 26sold 2022-12-12 · 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 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, 2022-10-15. 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.