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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-9YF8-WVWR-C
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 straight pipe of hexagonal section, catalogued under the Cavalier name and described by its owner as an English estate piece in the London style. The hexagon belongs to the family of paneled shapes, in which the bowl is worked into flat facets rather than left fully round. Six-sided bowls of this kind demand careful, symmetrical cutting, since every facet must meet its neighbours along a clean arris; the result is a geometric silhouette that reads as more architectural than the classic billiard or Dublin from which most straight pipes descend. Paired with a straight shank and an unbroken line from bowl to bit, the form projects the restrained, tailored character long associated with London pipe making, and the 'London Style' designation on trade pipes of this type was intended to invoke exactly that tradition. The Cavalier name sits within the broad population of English trade-name pipes, marks applied by workshops and distributors serving the general market rather than the high-grade houses whose histories are extensively documented. The owner's attribution places it within the English estate trade, which points broadly to twentieth-century production, but no tighter bracket can be responsibly asserted from the material at hand. The record therefore stands as a documented instance of the hexagonal paneled form as executed under an English trade name, with its era honestly left undetermined pending further evidence.
2023-01-24
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-24.
2023-02-01
Sold through Etsy for USD 39. 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 'undetermined; 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 39sold 2023-02-01 · 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 19 sales of Cavalier between 2017–2023 — median $75, most falling between $15 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, 2023-01-24. 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. 9 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.