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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-BR43-JM36-2
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 large bent billiard of the chimney variety marked Old Master, carried in the archive under the shape number 104 and fitted for the 9mm filter system. The chimney billiard is a tall-bowled development of the classic billiard form: the cylindrical bowl is drawn upward well beyond standard proportions, producing an elongated chamber prized for a deep tobacco column, and here it is paired with a bent stem that drops the bowl below the line of the mouth in the manner of a comfortable clench. The surfaces are finished smooth, presenting the grain of the stummel without carving or blast.
The 9mm filter fitting is itself an instructive feature. This bore, sized to accept a disposable charcoal or paper filter, became the dominant convention of continental European pipe making in the decades after the Second World War, and its presence generally signals a pipe produced with that market's smoking habits in mind.
Dating rests on the stampings rather than any factory code. The mark 'Foreign Made' belongs to a family of deliberately generic origin stamps applied to pipes distributed under trade names, satisfying import-marking requirements while leaving the actual workshop unnamed. Such marks carry no dating system of their own, so the record must be bracketed by style and convention: the catalogue-style shape number, the generic import stamp, and above all the 9mm filter system together point to production in the mid-to-late twentieth century, with no narrower attribution possible from the marks alone. The pipe therefore stands in the encyclopedia as a representative example of the anonymous, filter-fitted export billiard — a workhorse form produced in quantity under distributors' names — with its era honestly left as an open bracket rather than a fixed year.
2023-02-03
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-03.
2023-07-25
Sold through Etsy for USD 57. 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 'mid-to-late 20th century).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 57sold 2023-07-25 · 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 259 sales of Old Master between 2015–2026 — median $38, most falling between $22 and $59.
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, 2023-02-03. 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. 8 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.