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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-ADG8-3QBK-P
2022
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 record documents a Peterson Christmas 2022 Copper Spigot Heritage in the maker's XL90 shape, an Irish-made pipe belonging to one of the firm's dated annual commemorative series. The spigot mount seen here is a Peterson signature with deep historical roots: the stem carries a metal-sheathed tenon that seats into a matching metal-lined mortise cap on the shank, a construction descended from the military or army mount, which allowed a pipe to be separated even while warm and lent the joint considerable resilience. In this Christmas 2022 issue the fittings are rendered in copper, the defining feature of the Copper Spigot line, paired here with Peterson's Heritage finish treatment. The XL90 is one of Peterson's extra-large house shapes, part of the XL series of generously proportioned designs that give the smoker a substantial bowl and a commanding presence in the hand. Dating this pipe is unusually straightforward compared with most estate briars: Peterson's Christmas pipes are issued as year-specific annual editions, so the model designation itself fixes production to the 2022 release. This makes such commemorative series valuable reference points in a study collection, since they anchor an exact year in a way that ordinary shape-and-finish stampings rarely can. As a documented example, the pipe illustrates how Peterson has carried its Victorian-era spigot engineering into twenty-first-century seasonal editions, marrying an old army-mount solution to contemporary finishes and limited annual runs, and it stands in the archive as a clear, firmly dated specimen of the firm's modern commemorative output.
2023-09-24
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-09-24.
2023-09-24
Sold through eBay for USD 110. 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 (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 110sold 2023-09-24 · 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, 2023-09-24. 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. 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.