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1 photographsArchive Record FUH-6MRA-83G4-X
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
No
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 Peterson of Dublin 'Hudson', a rusticated pipe from the firm's celebrated Sherlock Holmes series, fitted with Peterson's signature P-Lip mouthpiece and accommodating a 9mm filter. The rusticated treatment — a deeply worked, textured surface — is one of Peterson's standard finishes, offering a tactile alternative to the smooth and sandblasted grades produced across the same shape range. Charles Peterson's late nineteenth-century innovations gave the firm two of its most enduring signatures: the System reservoir bowl and the P-Lip mouthpiece, a graduated bit that directs smoke upward toward the roof of the mouth rather than onto the tongue. The P-Lip on this example is a defining Peterson feature and a useful identification marker in its own right. The 9mm filter capacity reflects the continental preference for charcoal filtration and places the pipe among Peterson's filter-ready production. The Sherlock Holmes series is among Peterson's most recognisable modern lines. Hudson. Shapes in the series are characteristically generous in proportion and strongly sculptural, and the named-shape stamping serves as the primary means of placing an example within the line. Peterson has never used a factory date-code system, so individual pipes cannot be dated to a specific year from their stampings alone.
2023-12-19
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-12-19.
2024-03-11
Sold through Etsy for USD 162. 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 'Late 20th to early 21st century ' -> undetermined; 3 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 162sold 2024-03-11 · 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, 2023-12-19. 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. 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.