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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-D8A8-Q2W3-M
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 a Brebbia straight billiard from the maker's 700 serie, carrying shape number 186 and finished in sandblast. The pipe is built around a 9mm filter system, a configuration favoured across much of continental Europe and widely offered by Italian factories serving that market. The sandblast treatment strips away the surface of the wood to reveal the underlying growth-ring structure in relief, producing a tactile, craggy finish that is also practical, dissipating heat efficiently during a smoke. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe maker's repertoire: a cylindrical bowl set roughly perpendicular to a straight shank of comparable length, with clean, balanced proportions. It is the form against which a workshop's discipline is most readily judged, since its simple geometry leaves no room for disguise. In a filtered 9mm execution such as this, the shank is bored to accept a standard filter cartridge between tenon and airway. Dating rests on the series and shape designation recorded by the owner. Brebbia, like most Italian factories, did not employ a systematic date-code stamping, so individual pipes are bracketed by the production span of their series and finish rather than pinned to a single year. On the evidence recorded, this example sits within Brebbia's postwar-to-modern output, with no narrower bracket established, and its identification as an Italian estate piece rests on the owner's statement.
2022-10-23
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-23.
2022-10-25
Sold through Etsy for USD 65. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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; consistent with Br' -> undetermined; 1 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 65sold 2022-10-25 · 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 126 sales of Brebbia between 2018–2026 — median $90, most falling between $49 and $130.
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, 2022-10-23. 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. 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.