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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-9YGM-PACM-K
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 pipe from the Cara line, executed in the house's sandblasted finish and carrying shape number 268 in the Peterson catalogue. The sandblast treatment, in which softer grain is blasted away to leave the harder ring structure of the wood standing in relief, has long been part of the Peterson repertoire, giving a tactile, craggy surface that also lightens the pipe in the hand and increases the surface area of the bowl. Peterson of Dublin occupies a singular place in pipe history. The Cara line sits among Peterson's numbered-shape ranges, drawing on the factory's standard shape chart, of which 268 is one entry; the number itself is the most reliable anchor for identifying the form against Peterson's published charts. Dating a Peterson presents a well-known challenge, as the firm never employed a factory date code. Students of the marque instead rely on the wording of country-of-manufacture stamps — the shifts among 'Made in Ireland,' 'Made in the Republic of Ireland,' and related forms — together with hallmarks on silver-mounted examples and the documented production windows of individual lines. Applying that method here, the identification rests on the owner's attribution of brand, line, and shape number, and the honest conclusion is a broad bracket: a product of Peterson's later twentieth- to early twenty-first-century output, recorded in this archive as a representative example of the Cara sandblast in shape 268.
2022-12-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-21.
2023-03-27
Sold through eBay for USD 107. 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 'Late 20th to early 21st century ' -> 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 107sold 2023-03-27 · eBay
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, 2022-12-21. 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. 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.