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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-AWCH-377C-C
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 German estate pipe attributed to Oldenkott and identified with the marque's EGRA line: a smooth-finished bent apple fitted with a stem bored to accept the 9mm filter. The apple is one of the classic rounded bowl forms of the pipemaker's vocabulary, distinguished from the billiard by its plumper, more spherical bowl with softly curved walls; in its bent configuration the shank and stem sweep downward, settling the bowl lower in the hand and giving the pipe a compact, comfortable posture. The smooth finish leaves the surface polished rather than carved or blasted, presenting the material's natural figure.
Oldenkott is one of the long-established names of the German tobacco trade, a firm whose history reaches back well before the modern era of pipe manufacture, and pipes bearing the name circulated widely on the Continental market. The 9mm filter system found here is itself a signature of that market: German makers standardised the wide filter bore in the twentieth century, and its presence on this pipe places it firmly within the Continental filter-pipe tradition, in which a disposable charcoal or paper element seats inside the tenon between shank and stem.
Dating a pipe of this kind proceeds from the marque, the line name, and the construction conventions rather than from any factory date code, since German production houses of this type did not generally apply year stampings to their work. The EGRA line designation and the 9mm system identify the maker and market context, but they do not by themselves fix a year of manufacture. The record therefore rests on the owner's attribution of brand, line, shape, and origin, and the era of production is entered honestly as undetermined pending further documentary evidence such as catalogue correlation or dated advertising for the EGRA line.
2022-10-27
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-27.
2023-05-21
Sold through Etsy for USD 48. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 48sold 2023-05-21 · 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, 2022-10-27. 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.