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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-4JEQ-UVET-V
2002
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
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 record documents a Vauen Pipe of the Year for 2002, catalogued under the model reference 0966R and finished in the partially sandblasted style, in which sections of the 's natural grain texture are exposed through blasting while adjoining surfaces are left smooth. The contrast between blasted and polished areas is a deliberate aesthetic device, allowing a single stummel to display both the rugged relief of the growth rings and the tighter figure of the smooth-dressed wood. Perl name, which became the standard bore for German-market pipes and shaped continental smoking habits for decades. The Pipe of the Year programme belongs to a broader European tradition of annual edition pipes, in which a maker issues a distinct design each calendar year, often in limited quantity, giving the series both a collecting rhythm and an unusually precise dating mechanism. That mechanism is the key to placing this example in time. Vauen does not rely on a conventional factory date code for such pieces; instead, the annual designation itself is the dating evidence. A pipe issued as the Pipe of the Year 2002 is, by definition, a product of that year's programme, making the model self-dating in a way few production pipes are. The era bracket for this example is therefore fixed with confidence at 2002, anchored by the edition name and its accompanying model reference 0966R rather than by stamping analysis or stylistic inference.
2022-11-12
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-12.
2023-02-15
Sold through Etsy for USD 118. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
6 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 119sold 2023-02-15 · 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 248 sales of Vauen between 2016–2026 — median $60, most falling between $31 and $123.
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, 2022-11-12. 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. 6 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.