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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-9QPU-HGM5-Q
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
No
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 Peterson Dracula in the Smooth finish, executed in the maker's shape 69 and fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. The line is a product of the company's contemporary era, which places this example firmly in twenty-first-century production. The fishtail mouthpiece recorded here is a meaningful specification within the Peterson catalogue. The firm is historically associated with its patented P-Lip bit, which directs smoke upward toward the roof of the mouth; the fishtail is Peterson's designation for the conventional flat, open-slot mouthpiece offered as an alternative, and many of its series are produced in both configurations. Noting which bit a given example carries is therefore a standard point of identification for the brand. Shape 69 is one of the numbered forms of Peterson's long-running shape chart, the numbering system by which the factory has organised its bowl and stem geometries across generations of production. The example entered the record as an Irish estate piece and is preserved here as a reference for the Dracula Smooth variant of this shape.
2022-12-07
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-07.
2023-02-27
Sold through Etsy for USD 108. 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 'contemporary, twenty-first centu' -> undetermined; 3 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 108sold 2023-02-27 · 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, 2022-12-07. 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.