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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-4AD7-HC2R-7
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 Killarney bulldog, shape 150, finished smooth in a red stain. The bulldog is one of the enduring classical forms of the pipemaker's repertoire: a diamond-section shank meeting a bowl of two conjoined cone frusta, traditionally set off by twin beadlines incised at the bowl's widest point. It is a shape prized for the visual tension between its angular shank and rounded bowl, and Peterson has carried it in its shape chart across many decades, with the 150 designation identifying this particular rendering within the firm's numbered system. The Killarney line belongs to the family of Peterson series named for Irish places, offered in smooth finishes and positioned within the firm's standard production range rather than its high-grade or system categories. Dating a Peterson presents a particular challenge, as the firm did not employ a factory date-code system of the kind used by some English houses. Scholarship on the marque instead relies on the wording and arrangement of the country-of-manufacture stamp — the succession from earlier Irish Free State and Éire markings through later Republic of Ireland forms — together with logo styles, hallmarked silver where present, and the documented lifespan of individual lines. The pipe is preserved here as a documented instance of shape 150 in the Killarney series, a representative expression of the Irish bulldog tradition.
2023-10-16
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-10-16.
2023-10-28
Sold through eBay for USD 77. 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 77sold 2023-10-28 · 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, 2023-10-16. 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. 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.