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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-9E2G-QX2X-N
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 smooth-finished bent Dublin from the Spitfire line of Lorenzo, bearing the model name Mirafiori and fitted with a 6mm filter system. The Dublin is one of the classical shape families of the pipe world, characterised by a conical bowl whose walls flare outward from a narrow base toward the rim, giving the chamber a tapering profile prized for the way it concentrates the tobacco as it burns downward. In its bent configuration, as here, the shank and stem curve to bring the bowl closer to the smoker's line of sight, producing a more relaxed hang than the straight version of the shape. The 6mm filter bore places the pipe within the Continental filtered-smoking tradition, a smaller-gauge alternative to the 9mm system standard in German-market pipes. The firm's output helped establish Italy's reputation as a major centre of factory pipe making alongside its celebrated artisan workshops. The model name Mirafiori evokes the well-known district of Turin, in keeping with the Italian factory practice of assigning evocative names to individual models within a series. Attribution to a period therefore rests on the firm's known span of activity and the styling of its lines rather than on any coded evidence, and this example is accordingly bracketed to the mid-to-late twentieth century, with the precise year left undetermined.
2023-01-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-21.
2023-09-12
Sold through Etsy for USD 44. 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 'mid-to-late 20th century; 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 44sold 2023-09-12 · 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 212 sales of Lorenzo between 2016–2026 — median $44, most falling between $25 and $70.
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, 2023-01-21. 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. 6 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.