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14 photographsArchive Record FUH-C376-2EDE-X
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.
No dating evidence has been recorded on this example yet.
Owner-stated. Facts as reported with the piece; not yet independently corroborated.Attribution is our documented expert opinion with its evidence — never a certification.
Rim cleaned (no wood removed)
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Refinished
No
Faridunhill standing declaration
Chamber reamed
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Smoked
No
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.
GOLDEN BREBBIA on the briar and M.P.B. BREBBIA on the metal band identify this compact sandblasted bent billiard. It is unsmoked new old stock, but it has a disclosed defect inside the mortise: a tiny scratch or crack beneath the band, recorded at intake as not visible from outside. That qualification is an essential part of this example's condition.
THE MAKER AND MARKS The Faridunhill Brebbia reference cabinet records the firm's beginnings in 1947 at Bosco Grosso di Brebbia, with Enea Buzzi and Achille Savinelli. After their separation in 1953, Buzzi retained the Brebbia works and the M.P.B. identity became part of its history. The cabinet records M.P.B. among the earlier marks, before the later Brebbia branding. The letters on this pipe's band are therefore relevant to that history, but the band alone is not used here to assign an exact manufacturing date or to certify that every fitting is original.
- GOLDEN BREBBIA, on the briar - M.P.B. BREBBIA, on the metal band
THE SHAPE AND FINISH The bowl rises from a rounded heel into the billiard profile, with a bent shank and a curved black saddle stem. The dark sandblast is relieved by reddish colour in the textured surface, while the broad bright band separates the stummel from the stem. The underside photographs show smoother wood reserved for the stamp, a useful contrast with the textured sides.
The stem is recorded as vulcanite with a P-Lip type bit and no filter. Its thicker base steps down to a narrower curved section, echoing the rise of the shank. At 128mm overall and 33g, the pipe has a short, light specification; those measurements describe this particular example without implying anything about the size of other Golden Brebbia pipes.
CONDITION - PLEASE READ Unsmoked new old stock. The intake note specifically reports a tiny scratch or crack inside the mortise, under the metal band, not visible from the exterior. It has not been established whether this is a surface scratch or a crack, or whether any work has previously been done beneath the band. The defect is disclosed as recorded, with no claim that it is harmless. The photographs include the stem removed and close views of the marks; they should be considered together with this written disclosure.
THE MEASUREMENTS - Length: 128 mm (5.04 in) - Bowl height: 41 mm (1.61 in) - Bowl width: 33 mm (1.30 in) - Chamber diameter: 19 mm (0.75 in) - Chamber depth: 31 mm (1.22 in) - Weight: 33 g (1.16 oz)
2026-11-09
Logged from the Faridunhill shop - photographed and listed on faridunhill.com, 2026-11-09.
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
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.
Faridunhill shop post, 2026-11-09. 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. 14 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.