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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-C3GW-GDPA-7
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 straight billiard from Bari of Denmark, catalogued within the maker's HARMONIE series and carrying the shape number 206. The billiard is the foundational form of the pipemaker's repertoire: a cylindrical bowl set at a right angle to a shank of roughly equal length, with clean, unornamented lines that reward well-selected wood and disciplined shaping. In a smooth finish, as here, the form presents the grain of the stummel directly, without rustication or sandblasting to disguise the material.
Bari occupies a notable position in the history of Danish pipemaking. The firm was established in Kolding by Viggo Nielsen in the years following the Second World War, and it grew into one of Denmark's recognised production houses during the decades when Danish design exerted a powerful influence on international pipe taste. Alongside the sculptural freehand work for which Denmark became famous, Bari also produced classically proportioned shapes in numbered series — this billiard among them — bringing Danish standards of wood selection and finishing to traditional English-derived forms. The HARMONIE stamp identifies one of these named series lines, with the accompanying three-digit number designating the catalogue shape.
Dating a Bari relies on context rather than code. The house employed no factory dating system, so an individual pipe cannot be pinned to a year of manufacture from its stampings alone. The series name and shape number confirm regular factory production, and the brand's active period places the piece within the mid-to-late twentieth century, the era in which Danish factory pipes of this kind circulated most widely. It is retained in the archive as a representative example of Bari's numbered-series work: a Danish reading of the classic straight billiard, documented under its HARMONIE line marking and shape number 206.
2023-04-09
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-09.
2023-06-14
Sold through Etsy for USD 44. 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' -> undetermined).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 44sold 2023-06-14 · 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 50 sales of Bari between 2018–2026 — median $68, most falling between $35 and $149.
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, 2023-04-09. 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. 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.