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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-B7C9-B29D-X
2018
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 record preserves a Peterson tobacco pipe from the firm's St. Patrick's Day series, 2018 issue, carrying the house shape number 120 and dressed with a silver band at the shank. Kapp & Peterson stands among the most historically significant names in pipe making. Alongside its standard catalogue, Peterson has long produced annual themed editions, of which the St. Patrick's Day series is the best known: issued each year in a run of catalogue shapes given a unifying seasonal finish and banding, the series has become a fixture of the brand's modern identity and a convenient marker of production year for students of the marque. The numeral 120 belongs to Peterson's long-established shape-numbering system, by which each bowl form in the catalogue is assigned a fixed number that persists across lines and decades. The number therefore identifies the geometry of the pipe within Peterson's own taxonomy rather than any grading or quality tier. Dating in this case rests on the edition itself. Peterson does not employ a conventional factory date code on most of its pipes, which ordinarily obliges researchers to reason from logo styles, stamping formats, and hallmarked silverwork. Annual editions such as this one sidestep that difficulty entirely: because the St. Patrick's Day line is released fresh each year and identified by that year, the 2018 designation fixes manufacture to a single season. The honest bracket for this example is accordingly precise — 2018, Dublin production.
2023-10-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-10-01.
2023-10-02
Sold through eBay for USD 99. 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 (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 99sold 2023-10-02 · 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, 2023-10-01. 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.