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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-8U2R-7Q7Q-5
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 documents an Italian estate pipe attributed to the Nino Rossi Signature Line, shape number 253, produced under the umbrella of Savinelli of Milan. The Signature Line designation and the personal name Nino Rossi situate this example within that Savinelli-era continuation of the marque, presented as a distinct line beneath the main Savinelli stamp. The three-digit designation 253 follows the conventional Italian factory system, in which a numbered shape chart governs the profile of bowl and stem across an entire production line, allowing a given number to identify a consistent, repeatable form rather than a one-off design. Dating pipes of this kind depends on brand chronology rather than factory date codes, since Italian makers in the Savinelli orbit did not stamp year marks on their production; the archive can therefore anchor this example only to the period of Savinelli's stewardship of the Rossi name, and the era is entered here as undetermined pending further documentary evidence. As an estate piece, it stands in this encyclopedia as a representative document of the Rossi marque's later life within one of Italy's most enduring pipe-making houses.
2023-06-26
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-06-26.
2023-06-26
Sold through eBay for USD 48. 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 48sold 2023-06-26 · 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, 2023-06-26. 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. 10 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.