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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-887E-EJJK-Q
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 straight apple documented under the marking DUN accompanied by the word 'Guaranteed', finished in an all-over rustication. The apple ranks among the foundational shapes of the pipe-maker's repertoire: a rounded, gently swelling bowl of roughly spherical profile, softer and fuller in the cheeks than a billiard, carried here on a straight shank and stem in the classic axial configuration that keeps the smoke channel on a single unbroken line from chamber to bit. The rusticated surface — a deliberately carved, textured treatment worked into the exterior of the bowl and shank — was a technique widely employed across the trade both for its tactile appeal and, historically, as a way of dressing stummels whose grain did not merit a smooth natural finish. Rustication also lightens the visual mass of a rounded shape such as the apple and improves grip in the hand. The qualifier 'Guaranteed' belongs to a broad tradition of assurance stampings used by many twentieth-century workshops and trade brands, typically signalling that the was warranted free of fills or flaws, or simply serving as a mark of the maker's confidence in the product. Such stampings were common on house brands and workshop lines whose full manufacturing histories are thinly documented today, and DUN falls into this category of lesser-chronicled trade names rather than the extensively catalogued major houses. The pipe therefore stands in this archive as a representative example of the guaranteed-grade rusticated apple as a type, rather than as a datable artefact of a specific production period.
2022-10-07
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-07.
2022-10-11
Sold through Etsy for USD 29. 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 (2 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 29sold 2022-10-11 · 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 185 sales of DUN Guaranteed between 2015–2026 — median $195, most falling between $45 and $350.
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, 2022-10-07. 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.