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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-B552-6NWC-G
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 is a Peterson Bent Dublin Churchwarden carrying the shape designation D6, an Irish estate piece attributed to the celebrated Dublin house. The form marries two distinct traditions in one pipe. The Dublin bowl — one of the oldest recognised chamber shapes — is defined by walls that flare outward from a narrow heel to a wider rim, producing a conical chamber that concentrates the tobacco toward the bottom of the bowl. Here that bowl is set on a bent configuration and extended into a churchwarden, the long-stemmed format whose exaggerated draw distance is prized for delivering a cooler smoke, the extra length allowing heat and moisture to dissipate before reaching the bit. Within Peterson's catalogue, the D-prefix numbers have historically identified the firm's churchwarden shapes, of which the D6 is the bent Dublin rendering. Peterson's output spans workshop eras from Victorian Dublin through the modern factory, and its shape chart has remained one of the most stable and recognisable in the trade. Dating a Peterson depends chiefly on the nomenclature stamped on shank and stem, since the firm did not employ a systematic factory date code across most of its production; students of the marque instead read the style of the country-of-manufacture stamp, hallmarks where a silver band is present, and logo details to place a piece within a bracket. As the source record for this example transcribes no stampings, the archive assigns it an honest era bracket of undetermined, pending direct examination of its nomenclature.
2023-07-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-21.
2023-07-22
Sold through eBay for USD 100. 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 (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 100sold 2023-07-22 · 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, 2023-07-21. 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.