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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-B874-WJ35-D
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 Peterson Irish Harp in shape 68, a smooth-finished bent billiard fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. The bent billiard is among the most enduring forms in the pipe-making canon: a cylindrical, gently tapering bowl of classic billiard proportion joined to a curved shank and stem, an arrangement that drops the bowl below the smoker's line of sight and shifts weight toward the hand. The fishtail bit distinguishes this example from Peterson's famous P-Lip, presenting a conventional flattened, open-slot mouthpiece rather than the firm's patented graduated-bore design. Shape 68 within the Peterson numbering scheme designates this compact bent billiard profile, a configuration the firm has produced across many decades. Dating a Peterson depends chiefly on the style of its stampings, the wording of its country-of-origin mark, and, where silver mounts are present, Dublin hallmarks that can fix a year of assay. Unmounted smooth pipes such as this one must instead be bracketed by the typography of the brand and line stamps and by the known production span of the line itself. On the evidence preserved in this record — the owner-stated line and shape attribution — the piece is assigned to an open era bracket within Peterson's twentieth-to-twenty-first-century output, and the record's structure carries that honest uncertainty forward.
2023-11-23
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-11-23.
2023-12-04
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 (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 145sold 2023-12-04 · 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, 2023-11-23. 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.