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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-8MD4-48PU-W
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 Dublin-shaped estate pipe carrying the McCormick Edinburgh branding, attributed by its owner to Design Berlin, the German pipe-making house whose workshops have supplied both their own catalogue and a range of sub-brands and retailer names over the decades. The pairing of a Scottish-sounding trade name with German manufacture follows a long-standing convention in the pipe trade, where evocative British names were applied to Continental production to appeal to markets that associated pipe smoking with the traditions of Edinburgh and London. The Dublin is among the oldest recognised shapes in the classical chart: a bowl whose walls taper outward from a narrower base to a wider rim, giving the chamber a conical profile. The form is prized for the way its geometry concentrates the burn toward the bottom of the chamber, and it remains a staple of virtually every maker's line-up, German houses included. Dating rests entirely on the owner's account. Design Berlin and its associated sub-brands did not employ a factory date-code system of the kind used by Dunhill, so individual pieces cannot be pinned to a production year from their stampings alone.
2023-06-04
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-06-04.
2023-06-04
Sold through eBay for USD 68. 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 (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 68sold 2023-06-04 · 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, 2023-06-04. 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. 9 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.