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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-8458-8DTB-U
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 record documents a Peterson Sherlock Holmes Rathbone in rusticated finish, an Irish-made estate pipe fitted with the maker's signature P-Lip mouthpiece and accommodating a 9mm filter. The rusticated surface — a deeply worked, tactile texture carved into the stummel — is one of the standard finishes Peterson applies across the Sherlock Holmes programme, offering a rugged counterpoint to the line's smooth and sandblasted variants. The P-Lip bit, patented by Peterson and long identified with the house, directs smoke upward through a graduated bore toward the roof of the mouth rather than straight onto the tongue, a design the firm has promoted since the late nineteenth century as a cooler, drier smoke. Each shape in the programme is named for a character, place, or figure associated with the Holmes canon, and the shapes are characteristically large, full-bodied interpretations of classic forms. The Rathbone — named in tribute to Basil Rathbone, the actor most famously associated with the detective on screen — belongs to this named-shape tradition and is among the substantial, commemorative silhouettes that define the series. Here the governing evidence is the line itself. As an estate example, the pipe has seen prior use, a fact entered in the attribute record.
2023-02-10
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-10.
2023-02-20
Sold through Etsy for USD 159. 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-1987; 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 159sold 2023-02-20 · 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, 2023-02-10. 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.