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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-57C9-RHTT-9
Era 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 Jobey Dansk bent Dublin, model 2SM, finished smooth over the flanks of the bowl and crowned with a plateau top — the craggy natural outer surface of the burl left intact at the rim, a signature gesture of Scandinavian pipemaking that celebrates the raw material rather than concealing it. The stem follows a bent profile, drawing the bowl back toward the smoker in the relaxed posture typical of Danish-influenced designs. As an estate pipe, it carries the record of previous use. Jobey is one of the longer-lived names in pipe retailing, a brand whose pipes were sourced from workshops in several countries over its history. A Dansk-stamped Jobey therefore belongs to that Danish production stream rather than to the brand's English or American sourcing. The Dublin is among the oldest recognised shapes in the pipe canon, defined by a bowl whose walls taper outward from a narrower base to a wider rim, giving a conical chamber. Rendered here with a plateau crown and a bent stem, the classical form is translated into the Danish idiom. Dating rests on line attribution rather than a factory code, as Jobey employed no dating system on its pipes. An honest bracket for this piece is therefore the mid-to-late twentieth century, within the Danish freehand period, with no narrower date determinable from the markings described.
2022-12-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-01.
2022-12-22
Sold through eBay for USD 71. 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 (era 'mid-to-late 20th century; 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 71sold 2022-12-22 · 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 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, 2022-12-01. 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.