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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-E6YV-4KFR-5
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 smooth-finished bent volcano from the Terranova line of Lorenzo, an Italian pipe house, catalogued under shape number 8813 and fitted with a 9mm filter system. It entered the archive as an estate piece, meaning it has passed through prior ownership and use, which is the normal channel through which mid-century and later factory pipes survive into reference collections. The volcano is one of the more sculptural shapes in the traditional repertoire: the bowl takes the form of a truncated cone, broad at the base and tapering upward toward the rim, so that the profile suggests the mountain from which the shape takes its name. In its bent configuration, as here, the shank and stem descend and curve away from the bowl, lowering the pipe's centre of gravity in the hand and at the clench. The smooth finish leaves the surface grain of the stummel fully visible rather than concealing it beneath rustication or sandblasting. The 9mm filter mount places the pipe firmly within the continental European smoking tradition, where disposable charcoal filters of that bore became a widespread standard; the shank is drilled to accept the cartridge between tenon and airway. Lorenzo operated as a volume producer of Italian pipes, and named lines such as Terranova served to organise its catalogue by finish and grade, with shape numbers like 8813 identifying the specific form within the range. Dating rests entirely on the model identification supplied with the pipe.
2023-01-08
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-08.
2023-01-08
Sold through Etsy for USD 39. 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 39sold 2023-01-08 · 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, 2023-01-08. 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.