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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-B53N-VPE3-V
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
No
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 documents a Peterson System pipe in the smooth finish, carrying the shape number 303 and fitted with the maker's signature P-Lip mouthpiece. It entered the archive from an Irish estate, according to the owner's account, which is consistent with the marque's Dublin origins. The System Smooth designation places the pipe within Peterson's foundational product line rather than among its later straight-stemmed or specialty series. The P-Lip mouthpiece present on this example is the second half of that patent legacy — a graduated bit that directs the smoke stream upward toward the roof of the mouth rather than onto the tongue, and which remains a hallmark of the System line more than a century after its introduction. The numeral 303 identifies the pipe within Peterson's System shape chart, a numbering scheme the factory has maintained across generations of production. Because the System line has been manufactured essentially without interruption from the Victorian era to the present day, a shape number alone cannot fix a year of production; Peterson dating ordinarily proceeds from country-of-manufacture stamps, hallmarked silver mounts, and typographic details of the nomenclature, each of which corresponds to documented periods in the firm's history. On the evidence recorded here, this example is bracketed broadly within Peterson's continuous System production, its precise era left open pending closer study of its markings.
2023-11-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-11-22.
2023-11-28
Sold through Etsy for USD 145. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
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; within Peterson's ' -> undetermined; 2 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 145sold 2023-11-28 · 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 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, 2023-11-22. 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. 9 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.