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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-4T5X-ET3R-U
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 Aran shape 05, a smooth-finished bent Dublin fitted for the 9mm filter system, documented as an Irish estate pipe. The Dublin is among the oldest recognised bowl forms in pipe making, defined by a chamber whose walls flare outward from a narrower base to a wider rim, giving the bowl a distinctive conical profile; in its bent rendering, as here, the shank and stem curve downward to bring the bowl closer to the smoker's chin, a posture long associated with Peterson's house style. The 9mm filter bore reflects the continental preference for paper or charcoal filtration and marks the pipe as configured for that system at manufacture. The Aran belongs to Peterson's smooth-finished lines, presenting the natural grain of the stummel under a clear or lightly stained finish rather than sandblast or rustication, and it occupies an accessible position within the firm's range while carrying the standard Peterson shape numbers — here the 05. Dating a Peterson requires explanation, because the firm has never used a systematic factory date code. Students of the marque instead read the country-of-manufacture stampings, which shifted in wording across the twentieth century as Ireland's political designation changed, alongside line names and hallmarks on silver-mounted examples. For this pipe, the record rests on the owner's identification and the Aran line designation, which together support only a broad bracket within that series' production; the era is therefore entered as undetermined, an honest boundary the archive preserves as written.
2022-12-12
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-12.
2022-12-15
Sold through eBay for USD 80. 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).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 80sold 2022-12-15 · 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, 2022-12-12. 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. 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.