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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-CHPE-A69P-H
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.
The Prince of Wales 43 is a compact bent briar recorded here as a close structural counterpart to the Peterson 313 Standard System. Its stated construction includes the two defining elements of the System design: an internal moisture-trapping reservoir below the airway, intended to condense and hold moisture away from the smoke stream, and a P-lip mouthpiece, whose graduated bore directs smoke upward toward the palate rather than straight onto the tongue. Dimensions are documented at five inches in length, a bowl height of 1.77 inches, a chamber of 0.71 inches in diameter and 1.38 inches in depth, and a weight of forty-two grams — proportions the owner describes as identical to the Peterson original. The Prince shape itself carries a well-established pedigree in pipe history. It emerged in the late nineteenth century and is traditionally associated with Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, for whom the light, low-slung form is said to have been developed by the London house of Loewe & Co. Dating this specific example is not possible from the record. No stampings, nomenclature, or country of manufacture are documented, and the Prince of Wales brand itself is noted here only as stated by the owner, without corroborating marks.
2025-10-23
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2025-10-23.
2025-12-13
Sold through Etsy for USD 75. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-28
6 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 (3 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 75sold 2025-12-13 · 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 157 sales of Prince of Wales between 2016–2026 — median $49, most falling between $23 and $110.
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, 2025-10-23. 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.