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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-56HX-F6UB-2
mid-to-late 20th century
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 archive record documents an estate example of the Killarney line, stamped as "A Peterson Product" and "Made in Ireland," bearing the shape number 106 and fitted with a P-lip mouthpiece. Killarney occupies a well-established place in Peterson's history as one of the Dublin firm's named sub-brands — pipes produced in the Peterson workshops and marketed under a secondary name, allowing the house to offer its shapes and workmanship at an accessible tier while reserving the Peterson stamp for its principal lines. Such sub-brands are of genuine reference interest because they carry authentic Peterson factory work under a different banner, and the explicit "A Peterson Product" stamp on this example makes the parentage unambiguous.
The defining feature recorded here is the P-lip mouthpiece, the signature Peterson bit design descending from Charles Peterson's patent work of the late nineteenth century. Rather than terminating in a conventional slot, the P-lip directs the smoke through an aperture on the upper surface of the button, aimed toward the roof of the mouth rather than the tongue — a design Peterson promoted as reducing tongue bite and one that remains closely identified with the house to this day. Its presence on a Killarney-stamped pipe underscores how fully the sub-brand shared in the parent firm's engineering.
Dating rests on the stampings. The "Made in Ireland" country-of-origin mark belongs to Peterson's production after the establishment of the Irish state, and because the firm used several country-of-origin formats across the twentieth century, the wording provides a broad rather than pinpoint bracket. Taken together with the shape number 106 from the Peterson catalogue, the evidence supports an honest attribution to the mid-to-late twentieth century. The pipe is preserved in the encyclopedia as a reference example of Peterson sub-brand production and of the P-lip system applied beyond the primary Peterson stamp.
2023-04-08
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-08.
2023-11-22
Sold through Etsy for USD 95. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 95sold 2023-11-22 · 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 45 sales of Killarney between 2018–2025 — median $80, most falling between $50 and $95.
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, 2023-04-08. 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. 9 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.