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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-9HR5-EK26-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 Peterson Kapet in the Lovat form, stamped as shape 53, finished smooth and fitted with the house's characteristic P-Lip mouthpiece. The Lovat is one of the classic straight shapes of the canon: a cylindrical bowl carried on a long round shank, closed with a comparatively short stem, giving the pipe a lean, workmanlike profile that has remained in continuous favour since the early twentieth century. The maker, Kapp & Peterson of Dublin, stands among the most historically significant names in pipe making. The P-Lip appears across many Peterson lines, and its presence here marks the pipe unmistakably as a product of the Dublin house. The Kapet itself is one of Peterson's long-running smooth-finish lines, positioned as an accessible expression of the firm's standard shape chart, of which number 53 is a catalogued entry. Dating a Peterson requires explanation, because the firm never employed a factory date code in the manner of some English houses. Precise attribution normally rests on the wording of the country-of-manufacture stamp — which shifted through 'Made in Ireland', 'Irish Free State', 'Eire', and 'Made in the Republic of Ireland' across the decades — or on hallmarked silver mounts where fitted. The Kapet designation and shape 53 were produced over a long period, so on the evidence preserved in this record the pipe is honestly placed within twentieth-century Peterson production, without a narrower bracket.
2022-09-23
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-09-23.
2022-09-29
Sold through Etsy for USD 85. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 'Twentieth century, undetermined ' -> undetermined; 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 85sold 2022-09-29 · 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 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, 2022-09-23. 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.