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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-C8U8-X339-5
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 bent Dublin from the Italian brand Stefano, presented under the line designation 'Exclusive Selected Briar' and fitted with a 9mm filter system. The bowl is briar, finished smooth so that the natural surface of the wood remains visible, and the overall composition follows the bent configuration, with the shank and stem descending in a curve away from the bowl rather than running in a straight line. The Dublin is one of the classic shapes of the pipe-making canon, defined by a bowl whose walls flare outward as they rise, producing a conical chamber that tapers toward the heel. In its bent form the shape gains a lower, more relaxed profile, and the forward cant of the bowl typical of the Dublin family is emphasised by the curvature of the shank. It is a shape produced across virtually every pipe-making nation, and Italian workshops have long included it among their standard offerings. The 9mm filter is characteristic of continental European practice, where filtered smoking systems became widespread in the twentieth century; a pipe drilled for a 9mm filter carries a widened mortise designed to seat a disposable charcoal or paper filter between shank and stem. The line name 'Exclusive Selected Briar' belongs to the tradition of Italian factory nomenclature in which the grade of the briar block is announced as part of the branding itself. Dating rests entirely on the brand attribution supplied with the pipe. The era of manufacture is therefore recorded as undetermined, with the Italian origin and estate status resting on the owner's identification.
2022-12-13
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-13.
2023-01-01
Sold through Etsy for USD 49. 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 (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 49sold 2023-01-01 · 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 Stefano between 2015–2026 — median $65, most falling between $35 and $95.
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, 2022-12-13. 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. 6 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.