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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-48A8-WJ4M-D
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 straight bulldog attributed to the Commodore marque within its De Luxe line, carrying the shape number 8268 and dressed in a sandblast finish. It entered the archive through a Spanish estate grouping, a provenance channel that typically signals a pipe with a prior smoking life, and that history is reflected in the record's attribute checklist rather than in the prose. The bulldog is among the most codified shapes in the pipe-making canon: a bowl formed of two opposing cones meeting at a pronounced waist, traditionally circled by one or two incised rings at the widest point, mounted on a diamond-section shank. In its straight configuration, as here, the shank and stem run on a single axis, giving the pipe a compact, geometric character that has made the shape a fixture of factory catalogues across Europe and Britain for well over a century. A sandblast treatment on a bulldog throws the shape's angular architecture into relief, the blasted grain texture playing against the crisp diamond shank facets. The De Luxe designation follows a convention common to many twentieth-century factory brands, in which a qualifying line name distinguished a better-finished tier from a standard range, while a four-digit shape number such as 8268 places the pipe within an internal catalogue system rather than dating it. Commodore-marked pipes do not carry a published factory date code, and the stampings reported here — the brand name, line, and shape number — identify the model without fixing a year of manufacture.
2022-11-24
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-24.
2022-12-01
Sold through Etsy for USD 33. 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 33sold 2022-12-01 · 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 7 sales of Commodore between 2019–2023 — median $33, most falling between $25 and $66.
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, 2022-11-24. 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.