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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-4CC3-BK85-A
vintage, precise 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 is a Peterson Ashford in the maker's shape 69, fitted with a sterling silver band at the shank and bored to accept the 9mm filter system common to Continental and Irish production intended for filter smokers. The 9mm arrangement houses a disposable charcoal or paper filter within an enlarged mortise, a configuration Peterson has offered across several of its lines to serve markets — Germany foremost among them — where filtered smoking predominates. The Ashford belongs to the firm's family of sterling-banded lines, in which a hallmarked or sterling-stamped silver band dresses the shank junction, lending both reinforcement and the formal character associated with Peterson's mounted pipes. The shape 69 designation follows Peterson's long-standing numeric shape chart, by which the firm has catalogued its classic forms for well over a century. Dating a Peterson depends chiefly on the interplay of line, stamping style, and silverwork. Peterson did not employ a systematic factory date code on the itself; instead, hallmarked Dublin silver — where full assay marks are present — can fix a mounted pipe to a specific year, while the wording of the country-of-manufacture stamp and the known production window of a given line supply broader brackets. In the present record, the attribution rests on the owner's description of the pipe as a vintage Irish estate piece of the Ashford line. On that basis the example is entered honestly as vintage Peterson production of undetermined year, its identity carried by the Ashford name, the shape 69 designation, the sterling band, and the 9mm filter construction.
2023-11-02
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-11-02.
2023-11-11
Sold through eBay for USD 75. 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).
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 75sold 2023-11-11 · 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, 2023-11-02. 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. 10 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.