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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-96K8-AA3M-C
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 straight billiard from the German maker HHB, recorded under the firm's Starline line with the President designation and the shape number 70. It is finished in a full sandblast, a treatment that strips away the softer summer growth of the wood to leave the harder grain structure standing in relief, giving the bowl a tactile, craggy surface prized for its light weight in the hand and its cool smoking properties. The shank is cut to an oval cross-section rather than the more common round profile, a subtle refinement that lends the pipe a slimmer visual line when viewed from above while retaining structural depth through the vertical axis. The billiard is the foundational shape of the canon: a roughly cylindrical bowl set at a near-right angle to a shank of approximately equal length, producing balanced proportions that have made it the standard against which most other shapes are measured. In this example the classic form is filtered through a German handmade sensibility, the Handmade stamp indicating shaping and finishing work carried out by hand rather than wholly by machine fraising. Germany maintains a long pipemaking tradition, historically centred on towns such as Nuremberg and later on postwar workshops that supplied both the domestic filter-pipe market and export trade. HHB belongs to this German handmade output, with the Starline designation marking a distinct line within the catalogue and President serving as the model or grade name for this billiard. Dating rests on the recorded nomenclature — HHB Handmade, Starline, President, and the shape number 70 — together with the pipe's documented German estate origin.
2023-03-10
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-10.
2023-08-02
Sold through Etsy for USD 47. 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 (2 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 47sold 2023-08-02 · 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 HHB between 2022–2024 — median $42, most falling between $24 and $48.
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, 2023-03-10. 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.