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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-A8J6-WVD5-3
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 Vauen PIPOO in the blue/marble colourway, a compact pipe of mini proportions fitted with the 9mm filter system that has long been a signature of the maker's engineering. The PIPOO line represents Vauen's approach to the small-format pipe: a pocketable bowl and short overall profile, offered in strongly coloured decorative finishes — here a blue and marble treatment — that set the series apart from the traditionally stained of the firm's classic ranges. The 9mm filter bore in the shank accepts the standard activated-charcoal filters that Vauen itself helped establish as the German norm. Vauen — Vereinigte Pfeifenfabriken Nürnberg — occupies a foundational place in continental pipe history. Perl 9mm charcoal filter made the filtered pipe a defining feature of German smoking culture. The company's white-dot-crowned stem logo and its emphasis on standardised filter systems have made Vauen pipes instantly recognisable across European markets. Dating a Vauen of this type proceeds from the model rather than from any factory code, as Vauen does not stamp its production with year marks. The PIPOO series belongs to the maker's modern catalogue, and its combination of a mini format, vividly coloured composite finish, and 9mm filter architecture places it firmly within contemporary output.
2023-11-04
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-11-04.
2023-11-09
Sold through eBay for USD 45. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
6 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 production, late 20' -> 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).
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 45sold 2023-11-09 · 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 248 sales of Vauen between 2016–2026 — median $60, most falling between $31 and $123.
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, 2023-11-04. 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. 10 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.