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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-BB28-4X6F-9
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 is a smooth-finished bent billiard from Vauen's Dr. Perl line, carrying the shape number 6035 and fitted with the maker's 9mm filter system. The mouthpiece is cut in the P-lip pattern, in which the smoke channel exits through the top surface of the bit rather than through its end, directing the smoke upward toward the roof of the mouth. Combined with the bent stem, this configuration yields the classic hung-jaw comfort profile long favoured for filtered German pipes. The firm is historically significant as the principal populariser of the 9mm activated-charcoal filter, a system that became the de facto standard across the German-speaking pipe market and which remains a defining feature of the company's production. The Dr. Perl name is closely bound to that filter: it designates both Vauen's filter product and a working line of pipes engineered around the 9mm bore. The bent billiard is among the most enduring shapes in the pipe canon — a cylindrical billiard bowl of classical proportion set on a curved shank-and-stem line, balancing traditional form with a relaxed carrying angle. Shape number 6035 identifies this rendition within Vauen's numbered catalogue. Dating a Vauen presents a familiar archival problem: the factory does not employ a date-code system in its stampings, so an individual pipe can rarely be pinned to a specific year. The shape number and the 9mm Dr.
2022-12-15
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-15.
2023-07-21
Sold through Etsy for USD 62. 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 '20th–21st century, undetermined' -> 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 62sold 2023-07-21 · 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 248 sales of Vauen between 2016–2026 — median $60, most falling between $31 and $123.
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, 2022-12-15. 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.