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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-CTN2-3AYB-Y
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 an Italian estate pipe attributed to Lorenzo, from the marque's ARENA line, executed as a bent Apple carrying shape number 8781. The bowl presents a smooth surface finished in green, a departure from the conventional walnut and oxblood stains that dominate factory pipe production and a treatment that gives the piece its most immediately distinctive character. The pipe is fitted with a bent stem and is configured for the 9mm filter system, the disc-filter arrangement standard across much of continental European pipe making, in which a filter cartridge seats within an enlarged tenon bore between shank and stem. Lorenzo was one of the sizeable Italian pipe manufacturers of the twentieth century, producing machine-assisted pipes in substantial volume for both domestic and export markets. The firm organised its output into named lines, of which ARENA is one, with individual shapes identified by catalogue number — here 8781, denoting this bent Apple form. The Apple is among the classic chart shapes: a rounded, squat bowl fuller in profile than the Billiard, its walls curving gently from base to rim. In its bent configuration, the shank and stem carry a downward sweep that shifts the bowl forward and lowers the pipe's centre of gravity in the hand. Attribution here rests on the owner-stated marque, line name, and shape number.
2022-12-05
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-05.
2023-01-18
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 (era 'undetermined; 2 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 2023-01-18 · 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 212 sales of Lorenzo between 2016–2026 — median $44, most falling between $25 and $70.
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, 2022-12-05. 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.