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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-7RWV-9CP5-R
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 archive record documents a smooth-finished straight billiard bearing the Vibel name and attributed by its owner to the Czech Republic. The bowl is briar — the burl of Erica arborea that has dominated pipe making since the mid-nineteenth century for its heat resistance, density, and figured grain — here presented in a smooth finish that leaves the wood's surface uninterrupted by carving or blasting. The pipe is catalogued in the encyclopedia as an example of Central European workshop production carrying the Vibel mark. The billiard is the foundational shape of the classical pipe canon: a cylindrical bowl set at roughly a right angle to a straight shank of comparable length, with the whole composition resolved along a single axis when, as here, the pipe is executed in the straight configuration. Because the billiard's proportions are so strictly conventional, it serves throughout the literature as the baseline against which other shapes are measured, and a smooth straight billiard is often the most direct expression of a maker's standard work. The Czech lands hold a long position in European pipe history, from the celebrated nineteenth-century carving traditions of Bohemia to the industrial and workshop production that continued through the twentieth century and into the present. The Vibel mark belongs to this modern chapter of that tradition. Dating rests on the country attribution itself.
2023-02-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-01.
2024-03-06
Sold through Etsy for USD 23. 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 'post-1993; 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 23sold 2024-03-06 · 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 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, 2023-02-01. 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.