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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-CD4K-2GRE-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 documents a straight billiard from the Denicotea TURNIER line, carrying the shape number 1100 and finished in a sandblast texture. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe-making canon: a cylindrical bowl set at roughly a right angle to a straight shank of comparable length, prized for its balance and its unadorned proportions. Here the form is rendered in a sandblasted surface, a finishing technique in which the softer material is blasted away to reveal the natural relief of the underlying grain structure, producing a tactile, craggy texture and a lighter overall weight than a comparable smooth-finished piece.
Denicotea is a German firm whose name is most closely associated with filtration. The company built its reputation on filter technology — most famously its crystal filters for holders — and its pipes belong to the broad German tradition of filtered smoking. This example is bored to accept the 9mm disposable filter, the format that became the de facto standard across German and Danish serial production in the second half of the twentieth century. The 9mm system requires a widened mortise in the shank into which the paper-and-charcoal cartridge seats between tenon and airway, and its presence is one of the most reliable markers of a pipe made for the Continental European market.
The TURNIER designation identifies the factory line, and the number 1100 the catalogued shape within it, following the conventional German practice of pairing a line name with a numeric shape code. Denicotea did not employ a factory date-coding system on its pipes, so precise dating from stampings alone is not possible; the line name, shape number, and 9mm configuration together support only a broad attribution to twentieth- or early twenty-first-century German production, and the record accordingly carries an undetermined era bracket.
2022-12-28
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-28.
2023-08-23
Sold through Etsy for USD 52. 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 '20th to early 21st century, unde' -> 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 52sold 2023-08-23 · 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 85 sales of Denicotea between 2017–2026 — median $32, most falling between $20 and $50.
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, 2022-12-28. 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. 7 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.