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1 photographsArchive Record FUH-5WUP-Q352-P
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 documents a Peterson of Dublin pipe in the Canadian shape, catalogued under shape number 264, presented in a smooth finish and fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. The Canadian is one of the classic long-shanked forms of the pipemaker's repertoire: a straight pipe distinguished by an elongated oval shank markedly longer than the bowl is tall, paired with a comparatively short stem. The proportions give the shape its characteristic balance, drawing smoke through a lengthy shank passage while keeping the overall silhouette lean and horizontal. Its presence on shape 264 places this piece within Peterson's standard-mouthpiece production rather than the System line. The example entered the archive as an estate pipe of Irish manufacture, identified by its owner as vintage. Peterson pipes generally carry no explicit factory date code, so dating rests on indirect evidence: the wording of country-of-origin stamps, which shifted over the decades as Ireland's political designation changed, together with logo styles, shape-chart revisions, and hallmarks where a silver band is present. In this instance the owner's attribution supplies the working era, and the record accordingly assigns a broad bracket of vintage twentieth-century production, pending closer study of the stampings. As a documented instance of the 264 Canadian with fishtail mouthpiece, the pipe serves the encyclopedia as a shape-chart reference point for Peterson's straight-shanked forms.
2023-07-31
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-31.
2023-09-16
Sold through Etsy for USD 69. 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 'vintage, twentieth century; 1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 69sold 2023-09-16 · 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 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, 2023-07-31. 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. 1 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.