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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-8W6C-FH3N-M
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 bent Dublin from the Fancy Delight line of Preben Holm, presented in a partially sandblasted finish — a treatment in which portions of the stummel are blasted to reveal the grain in relief while adjoining surfaces are left smooth, producing a deliberate contrast of texture across a single bowl. The Dublin form is one of the oldest recognised chart shapes, defined by a bowl whose walls taper outward from heel to rim in a conical profile; rendered here in a bent configuration, the shape acquires the low-slung, hand-friendly posture characteristic of Danish work. Preben Holm occupies a notable place in the history of the Danish freehand movement. Dating a Preben Holm pipe relies on that biographical frame rather than on factory codes, since the workshop did not employ a systematic date-stamping scheme. Attribution here rests on the owner's identification of the maker and line, with the Fancy Delight designation consistent with Holm's series naming.
2024-03-25
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-03-25.
2024-03-27
Sold through Etsy for USD 165. 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 'c. 1960s–1989; 3 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 165sold 2024-03-27 · 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 23 sales of Preben Holm between 2015–2024 — median $95, most falling between $44 and $149.
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, 2024-03-25. 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.