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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-6M2J-NQNH-X
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 an English-made bent billiard of the Palm Beach marque, finished in a smooth blue dress and fitted for the 9mm filter system. The pipe entered the archive as an estate piece — that is, a pipe with a prior smoking history — and it serves here to document a coloured-finish variation on one of pipe making's most enduring forms. The billiard is the foundational shape of the English pipe-making tradition: a cylindrical bowl of roughly equal height and shank length, walls of even thickness, and a chamber set perpendicular to the airway. In its bent configuration, as seen here, the shank and stem curve downward and back toward the smoker, shifting the bowl's weight closer to the jaw and making the pipe comfortable to clench for long periods. The bent billiard has for this reason remained a staple of every major English catalogue since the nineteenth century. The blue smooth finish places this example within the twentieth-century fashion for stained and dyed dress finishes, in which the natural grain of the wood is allowed to show through a translucent coloured coat rather than being obscured by paint. The 9mm filter boring is a construction detail with its own significance: the wide-channel tenon accepts a standard 9mm charcoal or paper filter, a system that became dominant in the Continental European market and was adopted by many English makers producing for export. Dating rests entirely on the owner's description, which identifies the pipe as English and as an estate piece of the Palm Beach name. No stampings were transcribed for this record, and the marque carries no published factory date-code system by which a year of manufacture could be fixed.
2022-12-19
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-19.
2022-12-22
Sold through Etsy for USD 44. 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 (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 44sold 2022-12-22 · 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 9 sales of Palm Beach between 2018–2023 — median $40, most falling between $30 and $107.
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, 2022-12-19. 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.