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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-968K-6R7M-W
1950s–1972
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 a Kaywoodie Standard billiard carrying the factory shape number 11, an American estate pipe attributed to the period spanning the 1950s through 1972. Kaywoodie, produced by Kaufmann Brothers & Bondy of New York, stands among the most historically significant American pipe brands of the twentieth century. The firm rose to prominence in the interwar and postwar decades, when its inlaid white cloverleaf logo and patented Drinkless fitment made it one of the most widely recognized pipes in the United States. The Standard line occupied the accessible tier of the Kaywoodie catalogue, offering the company's factory shapes and construction at everyday grades, and it accounts for a large share of the Kaywoodie pipes encountered in American estates today. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe canon: a cylindrical bowl set at a near-right angle to a straight shank of roughly equal length, prized for its balance, its neutral smoking geometry, and its role as the benchmark against which other shapes are measured. Kaywoodie's shape 11 designates the company's rendering of this classic form within its numbered shape system, a cataloguing practice the firm maintained across its lines. Kaywoodie did not employ an explicit factory date code, so dating rests on indirect evidence: the evolution of the cloverleaf logo, changes in nomenclature and stamping styles, and the succession of stinger and fitment designs across the company's history. The record accordingly carries an honest mid-century American bracket rather than a single year.
2023-01-15
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-15.
2023-10-21
Sold through eBay for USD 66. 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 (1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (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 66sold 2023-10-21 · 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 30 sales of Kaywoodie between 2016–2023 — median $20, most falling between $15 and $45.
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, 2023-01-15. 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.