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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-6PJR-P7RF-K
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 is a smooth-finished bent billiard in , recorded as a Parker Super Bruyere carrying shape number 47 and identified by its owner as a product of the Dunhill orbit. The bent billiard is one of the foundational forms of English pipe making: a round, gently tapering bowl of classical billiard proportion set on a curved shank and stem, an arrangement that drops the bowl below the line of sight and shifts weight toward the hand or jaw. In the smooth finish shown here, the form relies on the natural figuring of the rather than carving or blast texture for its visual character. Parker occupies a well-documented place in English pipe history. The Parker Pipe Company was established in London in the early twentieth century as a companion operation to Alfred Dunhill's pipe works, and it is widely understood to have served as an outlet for bowls turned in the Dunhill workshops that did not meet the standards of the parent marque, finished and sold under the Parker name at a more accessible level. The Super Bruyere designation belongs to Parker's smooth production, and pipes of this line share the shape vocabulary and construction habits of their more famous sibling — hence the owner's note that the pipe is 'by Dunhill.'
Dating rests on the identification itself. Unlike Dunhill proper, whose pipes carry a well-mapped system of date codes, Parker stampings do not permit year-precise dating in most cases, and no stamping details accompany this example. The pipe is therefore bracketed honestly to Parker's twentieth-century English production, with the shape 47 designation serving as the firmest documentary anchor in the record. As an estate piece, it stands in the archive as a representative specimen of the Parker line and of the enduring English bent billiard form.
2022-09-27
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-09-27.
2022-11-17
Sold through Etsy for USD 75. 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 (parts.bowl_material 'briar' removed; era '20th century, undetermined' -> undetermined).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (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 75sold 2022-11-17 · 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 40 sales of Parker between 2015–2026 — median $69, most falling between $45 and $159.
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, 2022-09-27. 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.