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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-7HTT-35WM-T
1929 (owner-stated)
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 record preserves an English pipe of the AOC Keystone line, fitted with a silver band and attributed to the Oppenheimer concern, with an owner-stated date of 1929. The initials AOC point to A. Oppenheimer & Co., the London trading house that stood among the most influential forces in the British pipe industry. Oppenheimer is best remembered as the firm that acquired the Franco-English maker GBD at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it operated for decades as a parent organisation and distributor behind several English marques. The defining recorded feature of this example is its silver band, a fitment that in the English trade served both as reinforcement at the shank-stem junction and as an ornament of quality. Silver mounts of this era are also the standard instrument of dating: British sterling was assayed and struck with hallmarks that include a date letter unique to each year, and it is by such marks that banded English pipes are conventionally assigned a precise year rather than a broad bracket. The year carried by this record is 1929, placing the pipe squarely in the interwar period of English pipemaking, when firms under the Oppenheimer umbrella supplied both domestic and export markets in volume. As a reference example, it documents the Keystone sub-brand within the wider Oppenheimer family and illustrates the silver-banded idiom characteristic of London-trade pipes between the wars.
2022-10-25
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-25.
2023-07-20
Sold through eBay for USD 105. 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 (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 105sold 2023-07-20 · eBay
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 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, 2022-10-25. 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. 7 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.