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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-DBBQ-JXKV-7
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 estate billiard from the Kilimanjaro marque, catalogued under the maker's Meerschaum-Line designation as shape 102 and described as an extra large rendering of the form. The bowl carries a rusticated finish, its surface deliberately worked into a rough, tactile texture rather than left smooth — a treatment that both disguises surface irregularities and provides a secure grip, and one frequently encountered on pipes of this marque.
The Kilimanjaro name is associated with the East African meerschaum trade that developed in the mid-twentieth century, when substantial deposits of the mineral were worked in the Amboseli basin region near the mountain from which the brand takes its name. African meerschaum from this source became the basis for a distinct branch of pipe production, offering the absorbent, cool-smoking qualities of the mineral in forms and finishes that often departed from the carved figural tradition of Turkish meerschaum. A line title such as Meerschaum-Line signals the maker's emphasis on that material heritage within its catalogue.
The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe canon: a cylindrical bowl set roughly perpendicular to a straight shank, with proportions balanced so that neither element dominates. An extra large execution of the shape enlarges the chamber and overall presence while preserving those classic proportions, and the numeral 102 places this example within the maker's numbered shape series.
Dating rests on limited ground. No stampings or date-coded marks are documented for this piece, and the marque did not employ a factory dating system that would allow a year-specific attribution. The brand's association with the mid-to-late twentieth-century East African meerschaum industry provides the only general context, and the era of manufacture for this individual pipe is therefore recorded honestly as undetermined.
2022-11-13
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-13.
2023-10-06
Sold through Etsy for USD 51. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
5 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 51sold 2023-10-06 · 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 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, 2022-11-13. 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.