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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-8T33-HJ5X-5
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 reference example is an English estate tobacco pipe recorded under the John Peel Special designation, a name connected with the house of Barling, and carrying the model name Portland. As documented, it stands as a specimen of the secondary and associated lines through which established London pipe houses broadened their output during the twentieth century. Barling occupies a distinguished place in British pipe history. The firm of B. John Peel, a name drawn from the celebrated Cumbrian huntsman immortalised in the hunting song 'D'ye Ken John Peel', evokes the English sporting tradition that pipe houses of the period frequently invoked in their branding, and lines carrying such names allowed factories to serve a wider market alongside their premier stampings. Dating a pipe of this kind rests on the reading of its nomenclature. For the present example, the identification rests on the designations preserved in the source record, and no transcribed stamping permits a narrower placement. The honest conclusion is therefore a broad one: an English-made estate pipe of the twentieth century, its John Peel Special and Portland designations situating it within the Barling orbit while its precise production window remains open.
2022-11-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-22.
2023-03-02
Sold through eBay for USD 45. 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 '20th century, undetermined' -> undetermined; 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 45sold 2023-03-02 · 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 sample this sits in: Faridunhill has recorded 23 sales of Barling between 2018–2024 — median $59, most falling between $34 and $125.
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, 2022-11-22. 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.