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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-EXH4-QUWY-P
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 record documents an estate example of the Peterson Walnut Spigot in shape 15, fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. The defining construction feature here is the spigot mount, a style with deep roots in Peterson's history. In a spigot pipe, both the shank face and the stem tenon are dressed with metal ferrules, so that the stem seats into the shank as a metal-to-metal push fit rather than a conventional tenon-and-mortise joint. The arrangement is both decorative and practical: the mount reinforces the shank, and the stem may be withdrawn even when the pipe is warm. The Walnut designation identifies the finish line within Peterson's range, a smooth brown treatment named for the tone it imparts to the . The shape 15 is a numbered form from Peterson's long-running shape chart, by which the house has catalogued its bowl and shank profiles across generations of production. Dating a Peterson typically proceeds from its stampings: country-of-manufacture marks reflecting Ireland's changing political designations, and, on silver-mounted examples, Dublin hallmarks that can fix a year of assay. The present record rests on the line and shape designations as stated, and the era accordingly remains an open question within Peterson's long production history, to be resolved should its marks be read against the firm's documented stamping sequences.
2023-02-08
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-08.
2023-02-11
Sold through eBay for USD 130. 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).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (2 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 131sold 2023-02-11 · eBay
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, 2023-02-08. 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. 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.