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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-A8NM-UGBW-H
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 record documents an Italian estate pipe from the Rossi Rubino Antico line, produced under the stewardship of Savinelli and rendered in the shape marketed as the Fat Boy. The pipe is fitted with a 6mm filter system, an arrangement common across the modern Rossi catalogue that allows the pipe to be smoked either with a filter cartridge in place or with an adapter in the open airway. The Rossi name carries genuine weight in Italian pipe history. Ferdinando Rossi established his workshop in Varese in the late nineteenth century, and by the early-to-mid twentieth century the Rossi factory had grown into one of the largest pipe manufacturing operations in Europe, at its height producing pipes on an enormous industrial scale. After the original firm's decline, the marque was eventually revived by Savinelli of Milan, which reintroduced Rossi as a value-oriented line drawing on Savinelli's own production facilities and stocks. Pipes stamped Rossi and attributed to Savinelli manufacture, as this example is, belong to that revival era, in which the brand positioned itself as an accessible Italian pipe with the workshop discipline of its parent company behind it. Within that range, the Rubino Antico series is distinguished by its finish treatment, while the Fat Boy designation refers to a stout, generously proportioned bowl form whose broad, rounded profile gives the model its name — a shape emphasizing chamber volume and a hand-filling presence over slender elegance. Dating rests on attribution rather than markings.
2022-10-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-21.
2022-10-26
Sold through eBay for USD 56. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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; consistent with mo' -> 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 56sold 2022-10-26 · 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 13 sales of Rossi between 2018–2023 — median $45, most falling between $25 and $55.
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, 2022-10-21. 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. 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.