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18 photographsArchive Record FUH-4BQJ-MFP9-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.
No dating evidence has been recorded on this example yet.
Owner-stated. Facts as reported with the piece; not yet independently corroborated.Attribution is our documented expert opinion with its evidence — never a certification.
Rim cleaned (no wood removed)
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Refinished
No
Faridunhill standing declaration
Chamber reamed
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 Captain Black BX28 is a straight bulldog in a dark sandblast finish, with a vulcanite diamond stem and a fishtail bit. It is pre-smoked, in very good condition.
THE MAKER Captain Black is a line of Orlik, the London house founded by Louis Orlik in Bond Street in 1899 and known as L & A Orlik by 1907. Orlik marked its lines with series letters: B and BX mean Captain Black, and the X means sandblast. In 1979 the takeover of Orlik by Cadogan was agreed, and in 1980 Orlik passed to Cadogan.
THE MARKS The stamp reads Captain Black, Made in England, London Made and BX28. BX28 combines the series letters BX with the number 28. The marks do not fix a year, so none is claimed here.
SHAPE AND STEM A straight bulldog with a diamond-shaped vulcanite stem that ends in a fishtail bit. There is no filter.
FINISH AND GRAIN The sandblast finish is deep and even, dark on the bowl with lighter relief on the ridges, and it continues onto the shank.
CONDITION Pre-smoked, in very good condition.
THE MEASUREMENTS Length 134 mm (5.28 in); bowl height 43 mm (1.69 in); bowl width 37 mm (1.46 in); chamber diameter 18 mm (0.71 in); chamber depth 35 mm (1.38 in); weight 33 g (1.16 oz).
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2026-11-09
Logged from the Faridunhill shop - photographed and listed on faridunhill.com, 2026-11-09.
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
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.
Faridunhill shop post, 2026-11-09. 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. 18 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.