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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-DQ9H-QU72-E
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 Peterson of Dublin 'Hudson', a rusticated pipe from the firm's celebrated Sherlock Holmes series, fitted with the house P-Lip mouthpiece and accepting a 9mm filter. The rusticated finish — a deeply worked, craggy surface texture — is one of Peterson's standard treatments and gives the large Holmes-series bowls a robust, tactile character quite distinct from the smooth and sandblasted versions of the same shapes. The P-Lip mouthpiece seen here is one of the company's defining innovations: patented by Charles Peterson in the late nineteenth century, it directs the smoke upward through a graduated bore toward the roof of the mouth rather than straight onto the tongue, a design the firm has retained on many of its lines ever since. The 9mm filter chamber reflects the continental preference for filtered smoking and is a common fitment on later Peterson production. The Hudson takes its name from Mrs Hudson, the landlady of 221B Baker Street, and belongs to the extended family of oversized, generously proportioned shapes that characterise the whole series — pipes deliberately scaled up from Peterson's standard catalogue to evoke the Victorian imagination of Holmes himself. The honest bracket is therefore late twentieth century onward, within the ongoing production run of the Sherlock Holmes series.
2022-12-08
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-08.
2023-03-09
Sold through Etsy for USD 125. 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 'post-1987; 4 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 125sold 2023-03-09 · 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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2022-12-08. 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.