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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-4VP7-262Y-5
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 straight billiard in a smooth finish, carrying the shape number 235 and issued under the Mac Baren name in the Extra line. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe canon: a cylindrical bowl of roughly equal height and shank length, joined at a right angle to a straight shank and stem. Its proportions are the standard against which most other classic shapes are measured, and a smooth-finished straight billiard represents the form at its most orthodox — the finish left unadorned so that the grain and the geometry of the bowl carry the design. The straight configuration places the stem on a single axis with the shank, the oldest and simplest arrangement of the form. Mac Baren is best known as one of Denmark's great tobacco houses, a family firm based in Svendborg whose blending history reaches back to the nineteenth century. Pipes bearing the Mac Baren name belong to the broader Danish tradition of factory-made briars, in which numbered shape charts — here the 235 — allowed a house to catalogue its classic forms systematically. The Extra designation identifies the line within that catalogue. Dating rests on the character of the record itself. The pipe is documented as a Danish estate piece, meaning a previously owned pipe returned to circulation, and Danish factory pipes of this type were not customarily stamped with date codes in the manner of some English houses. Without a documented stamping sequence or a catalogued production window for the Extra line, the honest conclusion is an undetermined era: the pipe is a Danish-made billiard of the factory tradition, and the archive records it as such without assigning a decade the evidence cannot support.
2022-12-23
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-23.
2023-01-09
Sold through Etsy for USD 49. 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 49sold 2023-01-09 · 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 40 sales of Mac Baren between 2017–2026 — median $43, most falling between $15 and $78.
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, 2022-12-23. 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. 7 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.