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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-5Y4K-GY7M-Y
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 Savinelli Soirée in the maker's shape 602, a smooth-finished bent billiard of Italian estate origin. The bent billiard is among the most enduring forms in the pipe-making canon: a cylindrical bowl of classic billiard proportion joined to a shank and stem that curve downward, shifting the pipe's weight toward the jaw and lending it a relaxed, clenchable balance that the straight billiard does not offer. The smooth finish leaves the grain of the stummel fully visible, unbroken by rustication or sandblasting. Savinelli occupies a central place in Italian pipe history. The company organises its output into named series — of which Soirée is one — each denoting a particular finish and trim treatment applied across the firm's standard shape chart. Within that chart, three-digit shape numbers identify the form itself; the 602 designation places this pipe among Savinelli's bent billiards, a shape the factory has produced across many of its lines. Dating a Savinelli presents a particular challenge for the archivist. Unlike some English houses, Savinelli has never used a factory date code, and its nomenclature was applied consistently over long spans of production. Attribution of a period therefore depends on the combination of series name, logo style, and stamping format, cross-referenced against catalogue history.
2022-09-25
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-09-25.
2022-10-12
Sold through Etsy for USD 69. 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 (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 69sold 2022-10-12 · 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 229 sales of Savinelli between 2015–2026 — median $65, most falling between $40 and $135.
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, 2022-09-25. 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. 8 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.