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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-BT4V-U862-W
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 Peterson Deluxe bearing the shape number 106, an Irish estate pipe fitted with the firm's signature P-Lip mouthpiece. The P-Lip is the feature that most defines the piece: patented by Charles Peterson in the late nineteenth century, it is a graduated-bore bit whose smoke channel exits through a small aperture on the upper surface of the button rather than through its end. The design directs the smoke stream upward toward the roof of the mouth, an arrangement Peterson promoted as reducing tongue bite and moisture at the bit, and it remains one of the most recognisable mouthpiece systems in pipe making. The Deluxe designation sits among the firm's higher lines, historically distinguished from the standard ranges by its selection and finishing, and the numbered shape chart — of which 106 is a member — has allowed Peterson forms to be identified consistently across many decades of production. Dating a Peterson depends chiefly on the nomenclature stamped on the shank. In the present record the pipe is characterised as vintage Irish production, and the honest conclusion is a broad twentieth-century vintage bracket, with finer placement resting on the shank nomenclature and the details of the stamping itself. As an archive reference, the pipe stands for the enduring pairing of a classic Peterson numbered shape with the house P-Lip mouthpiece.
2023-11-09
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-11-09.
2023-11-10
Sold through eBay for USD 89. 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, twentieth century; 2 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 2023-11-10 · eBay
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, 2023-11-09. 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.