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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-8VGK-897R-G
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
No
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 Donegal Rocky in the bent pot form, carried in the maker's catalogue as shape 01 and fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. The pot is one of the classic chamber geometries — a comparatively wide bowl of modest height — and in its bent rendering the stem curves downward from the shank, giving the pipe a relaxed hang and a lower centre of gravity than a straight-stemmed equivalent. The fishtail bit is worth particular note in a Peterson context: the firm is most famously associated with its patented P-Lip mouthpiece, which directs smoke upward toward the roof of the mouth, so a fishtail example represents the conventional open-slot alternative that Peterson has long offered in parallel across many of its lines. The line has remained in production for many decades with only gradual changes to its dress, which makes any individual example difficult to place narrowly in time on shape and line identity alone. Peterson pipes do not carry a factory date code; dating within the marque ordinarily proceeds from the style of the nomenclature, the form of the country-of-manufacture stamp, and details of the mount and logo, read against documented shifts in the company's stamping practice. On the evidence carried in this record, the pipe is placed simply and honestly within the extended production span of the Donegal Rocky series, with the era bracket left open pending closer study of its stampings.
2023-08-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-08-22.
2023-09-02
Sold through eBay for USD 98. 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 'undetermined within the Donegal ' -> undetermined; 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 98sold 2023-09-02 · 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 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, 2023-08-22. 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. 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.