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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-BP57-XWNK-2
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
Yes
owner stated
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 Silvano Lungo, a large smooth-finished briar pipe in the Canadian shape, fitted with a 9mm filter system and an oval shank. The pipe measures approximately 17 centimetres in overall length with a bowl height of 4.5 centimetres and a weight of roughly 50 grams, and the owner reports a minor ding to the shank. It is recorded as an estate pipe that has been refurbished. Silvano is an Italian marque produced in the Varese region, positioned as an accessibly priced brand and generally associated with acrylic stems and a stylized 'S' logo as its identifying mark. The brand is occasionally confused with the far better-known Savinelli, but the two are distinct houses. The model name 'Lungo' — Italian for 'long' — refers to the extended shank that defines this pipe's proportions. The Canadian is one of the classic shapes of the Billiard family, distinguished by a long oval shank measuring roughly one and a half to two times the height of the bowl, paired with a comparatively short tapered stem. The shape emerged in early twentieth-century Europe, possibly with French origins, and appears in catalogues from around 1910 to 1920 through firms such as BBB; its name is generally attributed to its popularity in Canada. Close relatives include the Lovat and the Lumberman, which vary the shank cross-section and stem treatment. The long shank is traditionally valued for delivering a cooler smoke. The record stands as a representative example of the Canadian form as interpreted by a filtered Italian production brand.
2025-10-19
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2025-10-19.
2026-01-07
Sold through Etsy for USD 89. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-28
4 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 89sold 2026-01-07 · 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 15 sales of Silvano between 2020–2026 — median $45, most falling between $29 and $89.
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, 2025-10-19. 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.