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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-94Q5-PRAV-T
vintage, twentieth century (owner-stated)
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 smooth-finished Peterson tobacco pipe carrying the designation 999S and fitted with a sterling silver mount, as stated by the owner. The pairing of a polished smooth finish with silver furniture places the pipe within Peterson's long tradition of dress and silver-mounted work, in which precious-metal bands elevate the standard shapes of the catalogue. Peterson is among the most historically significant names in pipe making. The company remains one of the few great nineteenth-century pipe houses in continuous production, and its numbered shape chart has been remarkably stable across generations. The number 999 is one of Peterson's most celebrated shapes: a compact bent Rhodesian form, often known among devotees as the John Bull, with a broad, squat bowl and characteristic beaded lines. In Peterson nomenclature, a letter suffix appended to a shape number conventionally signals a variant treatment, and an 'S' is widely associated with sterling-mounted versions of a standard shape — consistent with the silver band the owner reports here. Dating a Peterson depends chiefly on stamping styles and, where a sterling mount is present, on hallmarks. Irish sterling silver assayed in Dublin bears hallmarks that include a date letter, and when legible these marks can fix a Peterson's year of mounting with unusual precision — a level of dating certainty few other pipe houses can offer.
2022-12-14
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-14.
2022-12-14
Sold through eBay for USD 95. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
6 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 95sold 2022-12-14 · 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, 2022-12-14. 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. 9 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.