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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-EA2X-UYMY-P
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 smooth-finished bent freehand from the Royal Star Handmade line, attributed to Design Berlin of Germany. The pipe is a full estate piece, meaning it entered the archive after a period of actual use, which makes it a representative document of how German factory-handmade pipes were built for the everyday smoker rather than the display cabinet. Its defining mechanical feature is the 9mm filter bore, the filtration standard that dominates the German domestic market: the mortise is drilled to accept a 9mm charcoal or paper filter cartridge seated between stummel and stem, a system German makers adopted broadly through the second half of the twentieth century and which remains a reliable marker of a pipe designed with the German consumer in mind. The bent stem completes a freehand composition in which the bowl is shaped to follow the character of the block rather than a fixed catalogue chart. Design Berlin is a German pipe manufacturer whose output spans machine-made series and hand-worked grades, and the Royal Star name identifies one of its branded lines. Dating rests on the maker attribution and the filter system rather than on any factory date code, since German production houses of this type did not stamp year-specific codes on their work; the honest conclusion is a bracket spanning the late twentieth to early twenty-first century, the period in which Design Berlin's freehand lines circulated widely. The record therefore stands as a teaching example of the German 9mm freehand tradition.
2023-05-15
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-05-15.
2024-01-16
Sold through Etsy for USD 55. 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 'late 20th – early 21st century' -> undetermined; 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 55sold 2024-01-16 · 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 267 sales of Royal Star between 2016–2026 — median $63, most falling between $33 and $100.
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, 2023-05-15. 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. 10 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.