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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-5EKA-5G3V-C
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 documents a smooth-finished bent Dublin attributed to the AMADEUS name and recorded by its owner as a Greek estate pipe. The pipe carries the shape number 17 within its maker's range and is fitted with a 9mm filter system, a construction detail characteristic of Continental European pipe-making, where the wide filter bore accommodates a charcoal or paper insert seated in the mortise between shank and stem. The stem itself follows a bent profile, dropping the bowl below the line of the bit in the manner typical of the form. The Dublin is among the oldest recognised shapes in the canon: a bowl whose walls taper outward from a narrower base to a wider rim, producing a conical tobacco chamber. In its bent configuration, as here, the Dublin gains a relaxed, jaw-friendly hang while retaining the shape's distinctive flared silhouette. A smooth finish on such a pipe leaves the grain of the stummel fully visible rather than concealing it beneath rustication or sandblast. Greece has a long association with pipe production, historically as a major source of burl from its mountain regions and subsequently as home to workshops producing finished pipes for both domestic and export markets; the AMADEUS marque belongs to this Greek trade context as stated by the owner. Dating rests entirely on the owner's account. The AMADEUS name is not associated with a published factory date-code system of the kind used by houses such as Dunhill, and no stamping evidence has been documented for this example beyond the shape designation given in the caption.
2022-10-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-22.
2022-12-13
Sold through Etsy for USD 54. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (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 54sold 2022-12-13 · 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 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, 2022-10-22. 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. 6 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.