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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-52A6-YT9B-9
2017 (annual commemorative edition)
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
No
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 St. Patrick's Day pipe from the 2017 annual edition, executed in the house's shape 606. Few makers are as closely bound to a national tradition: Peterson has long served as the emblematic Irish pipe house, and its annual St. Patrick's Day series makes that association explicit, offering each year a themed release that celebrates the national holiday. The series is by design a dated one — a new edition appears annually, typically drawing on the firm's established shape chart and dressed in a finish and livery chosen for that year alone. The shape number 606 places this example within Peterson's long-standing numbered shape catalogue, the system by which the factory has organised its classic bowl and stem geometries for generations. Numbered shapes of this kind recur across many of Peterson's lines, allowing a single well-proven form to appear in different finishes and series over the decades; the St. Patrick's Day releases customarily borrow from precisely this repertoire. Dating in this instance is unusually straightforward for a pipe archive. Whereas many manufacturers must be dated through stamping styles, logo evolution, or country-of-origin marks, the St. Patrick's Day series carries its year as part of its very identity: each edition is produced for, and named after, a single calendar year. The 2017 designation therefore fixes production to that year's run, yielding a firm bracket of 2017 for this example — a precision that annual commemorative series afford and that ordinary production lines rarely can.
2022-12-11
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-11.
2022-12-13
Sold through eBay for USD 105. 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 105sold 2022-12-13 · 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, 2022-12-11. 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.