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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-4KGE-25HJ-2
1947–1949
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 record documents a Peterson Belgique in a smooth finish, fitted with the house's signature P-Lip mouthpiece and preserved as an Irish estate example dated by its owner to 1947–1949. The Belgique is one of Peterson's small specialty shapes: a diminutive, forward-canted bowl on a slender shank, traditionally offered as a light, elegant smoker in contrast to the firm's more robust bent billiards and systems pipes. Its compact proportions have kept it in the Peterson catalogue for generations, and it remains one of the shapes most closely associated with the Dublin house's classic range. The P-Lip mouthpiece named in the caption is Peterson's most distinctive contribution to pipe design. Patented by Charles Peterson in the late nineteenth century, it directs the smoke upward through a graduated bore toward the roof of the mouth rather than straight onto the tongue, and its raised, rounded button is instantly recognisable in profile. Its presence on this Belgique marks the pipe unmistakably as a product of the Dublin workshop's own fitting tradition. The 1947–1949 bracket recorded here places the pipe at the very cusp of that transition, in the years immediately surrounding the declaration of the Irish Republic — a narrow and historically resonant window in Peterson chronology.
2023-11-07
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-11-07.
2023-11-11
Sold through eBay for USD 70. 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 70sold 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, 2023-11-07. 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.