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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-9V37-R9WK-Y
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 an English-made Barling of the Londoner line, executed as a large straight billiard with a smooth finish and carrying the shape number 9053. The billiard is the foundational shape of the English pipe tradition: a cylindrical bowl set at roughly a right angle to a straight shank of comparable length, prized for its balance, its efficient smoking geometry, and its role as the benchmark against which carvers and factories alike have long been measured. A large rendition of the form, as here, offers a generous chamber within the same disciplined proportions. Barling stands among the oldest names in British pipe making. The Londoner designation belongs to the later chapter: it is one of the named grades introduced under corporate ownership, positioned within a structured hierarchy of finishes and applied alongside four-digit shape numbers such as the 9053 seen here. Dating this piece rests on those two markers. Barling did not employ a factory date-code system in the manner of some competitors, so era attribution proceeds from nomenclature rather than a stamped year. Within the Faridunhill Pipe Encyclopedia this example serves to document the post-transition Barling house style as expressed in its most classical vehicle, the smooth straight billiard, and to illustrate how line names and shape-number conventions carry the burden of dating when no explicit date code exists.
2022-12-07
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-07.
2023-03-23
Sold through Etsy for USD 92. 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 'Post-transition Barling era, cir' -> undetermined; 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 92sold 2023-03-23 · 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 23 sales of Barling between 2018–2024 — median $59, most falling between $34 and $125.
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. 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.