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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-AM2F-2QG2-3
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-finish bent egg from Oldenkott, catalogued within the maker's Royal Nicofry line and carrying the shape number 502. The egg is one of the classic ovoid bowl forms of the pipe repertoire: the chamber sits within a rounded, tapering body whose widest point falls below the midline, giving the bowl a soft, organic profile. In its bent configuration, as here, the shank and stem curve downward and back toward the smoker, shifting the pipe's weight closer to the hand and jaw and lending the silhouette a relaxed, pendulous line that flatters the egg's curves. The smooth finish presents the grain of the stummel plainly, without rustication or sandblasting.
Oldenkott is a long-established German tobacco name, and pipes bearing the mark belong to the broad tradition of German factory pipemaking that supplied the domestic and continental European market through the twentieth century. The Royal Nicofry designation identifies a specific production line within that output, paired here with the three-digit shape code 502 in the numbered-catalogue manner typical of German series pipes.
Dating rests on what the record itself supplies. German factory pipes of this kind rarely carry year-specific date codes; attribution therefore depends on nomenclature, line names, and shape numbering as they correspond to period catalogues. In this instance the documented identifiers are the brand, the Royal Nicofry line name, and shape 502, which together confirm identity and origin but do not by themselves fix a year of manufacture. The honest conclusion is an undetermined era within Oldenkott's production history, with the pipe standing in the archive as a documented example of the marque's bent egg pattern until further catalogue correlation narrows the bracket.
2023-03-30
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-30.
2023-04-21
Sold through Etsy for USD 33. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 33sold 2023-04-21 · 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 134 sales of Oldenkott between 2015–2026 — median $35, most falling between $24 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, 2023-03-30. 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.