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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-CDUB-5P55-3
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 B. Barling & Sons pipe represents the English maker's T.V.F. line, characterized by its smooth finish and Pot shape designation 4025. The pipe exhibits the robust, cylindrical bowl form typical of the Pot shape, with straight walls and a broad, flat rim. The T.V.F. marking indicates it belongs to Barling's quality grading system. The stampings present on the pipe include the full B. Barling & Sons branding alongside the T.V.F. line designation and shape number 4025. The dating of this example relies on the owner's attribution to the brand, as Barling pipes lack systematic factory dating codes that would allow precise year identification. The presence of the complete company name and T.V.F. marking provides the primary evidence for establishing its identity within the Barling production timeline.
2020-12-29
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2020-12-29.
2021-02-09
Sold through eBay for USD 69. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
6 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 69sold 2021-02-09 · 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 20 sales of B. Barling & Sons between 2018–2024 — median $68, most falling between $39 and $125.
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, 2020-12-29. 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.