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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-B85Y-VFYR-Q
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
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 documents a smooth-finished bent Tomato from Brebbia, carrying the M.P.B marking and the shape number 6. The Tomato is one of the most immediately recognisable forms in the pipe-maker's repertoire: a squat, ball-like bowl compressed at top and bottom into a broad, rounded profile, here paired with a bent stem that lowers the bowl's carry and sets the mouthpiece at a relaxed angle. The smooth finish leaves the surface of the stummel fully visible, the treatment traditionally reserved for wood the maker judged worth displaying without rustication or blast. The M.P.B designation is central to this pipe's identity. Pipes bearing M.P.B nomenclature thus connect directly to the company's own factory lineage. Dating a Brebbia depends on stamping style and line names rather than any formal date code, as the firm did not employ a year-coding system of the kind used by some English houses. The M.P.B stamp and the numbered shape place this example within the company's established factory output, and the owner's characterisation of the piece as vintage situates it broadly within the mid-to-late twentieth century. Within the Faridunhill archive it stands as a representative document of the Italian bent Tomato as executed by one of Lombardy's principal pipe manufactories.
2022-12-13
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-13.
2023-04-18
Sold through Etsy for USD 88. 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 'vintage, mid-to-late 20th centur' -> undetermined; 1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 88sold 2023-04-18 · 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 126 sales of Brebbia between 2018–2026 — median $90, most falling between $49 and $130.
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, 2022-12-13. 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.