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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-DGEG-GP2N-B
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 pipe attributed to HHB of Germany, presented under the designation Handmade Starline in the President grade, and carrying the shape number 59. The form is a straight tomato finished smooth. The tomato is one of the classic rounded-bowl shapes of the pipemaking repertoire: a squat, compressed ball form whose bowl is wider than it is tall, seated on a straight shank that keeps the airway on a single horizontal line from chamber to bit. It is a shape prized for the generous chamber volume it packs into a compact silhouette, and a smooth finish on such a form places the emphasis squarely on the grain of the stummel and the fullness of its curves. The pairing of a 'Handmade' declaration with a named grade such as President follows a convention common among twentieth-century Continental workshops, in which a house line was tiered by finish and workmanship, with the upper designations reserved for smooth examples judged worthy of standing without rustication or sandblast. The shape number 59 anchors the piece within a catalogued shape chart, a practice typical of German series production, where a numbered range allowed a given form to be repeated consistently across grades. Dating rests entirely on the owner's account. HHB is not a marque documented with a factory date-coding system, so the record cannot be narrowed by stamping analysis in the way that, for example, a Dunhill can. What the archive can state with confidence is the pipe's German origin as presented, its position within the Handmade Starline series at the President grade, and its identity as shape 59 in the straight smooth tomato form.
2023-04-23
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-23.
2023-06-04
Sold through Etsy for USD 44. 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 (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 44sold 2023-06-04 · 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 8 sales of HHB between 2022–2024 — median $42, most falling between $24 and $48.
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, 2023-04-23. 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. 9 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.