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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-8VUE-67H7-T
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 a full bent apple in sandblasted briar, produced under the DERBY brand with the line designation Luxe Briar Select and the shape number 52. The apple is one of the enduring classics of pipe design: a rounded, slightly compressed bowl softer in profile than a billiard, its walls curving continuously from heel to rim. Rendered here in a full bent configuration, the shank and stem sweep downward and back in a deep curve, producing a compact, hand-filling pipe that hangs comfortably and keeps the bowl low. The sandblast finish exposes the briar's grain in relief, a treatment that follows the natural growth structure of the burl and lends texture to the rounded form.
The pipe is attributed to Oldenkott, one of the long-established names of the German tobacco trade. Germany maintained a substantial pipe-making industry through the twentieth century, with firms serving a domestic market that favoured practical, well-engineered smoking instruments, and house brands such as DERBY were a common vehicle for these makers. The 'Luxe Briar Select' designation signals a line marketed on the quality of its briar, while the two-digit shape number reflects the catalogue-driven production typical of continental factories, where each standard form carried its own numeric identifier.
Dating rests on the stampings and the owner's account of German estate origin. German factory pipes of this kind generally carry no year-specific date code, so the era must be bracketed from the brand, line name, and shape-number system rather than fixed to a single period. Taken together, these features place the pipe within twentieth-century German factory production, with the precise decade left undetermined. It is preserved in the archive as a representative example of a German house-brand sandblast bent apple, illustrating both the Oldenkott association and the numbered-shape conventions of the continental trade.
2023-01-06
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-06.
2023-01-29
Sold through Etsy for USD 52. 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).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 52sold 2023-01-29 · 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 8 sales of DERBY between 2020–2026 — median $48, most falling between $23 and $88.
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, 2023-01-06. 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. 7 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.