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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-EYA9-BBE9-D
owner-stated 1969
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 archive record documents an English estate pipe from Alfred Dunhill of London, catalogued within the firm's Cumberland line and stamped with the shape number 1103 alongside the nationality mark 'Made In England 09'. Dunhill occupies a singular position in the history of the pipe: from its Duke Street origins in the early twentieth century, the house built its reputation on rigorous quality control, distinct named finishes, and — most valuably for later students of the marque — a systematic factory date-coding practice that allows most examples to be placed within a specific year of manufacture. The dating of this example rests on the suffix stamped after 'Made In England': under Dunhill's convention, that numeral is added to a base year to yield the year of production, making the suffix stamp the primary instrument of chronology for the marque. The accompanying record for this pipe states a production year of 1969, and that owner-stated date is carried here as given; readers consulting the entry should weigh it against the documented introduction of the Cumberland finish and the suffix convention described above. As an estate example, the pipe has seen prior use, a fact entered in the attribute checklist of this record. It stands in the encyclopedia as a reference point for the Cumberland line and for Dunhill's date-stamp system.
2023-08-20
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-08-20.
2023-12-26
Sold through eBay for USD 275. 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 (2 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 275sold 2023-12-26 · 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 163 sales of Dunhill between 2015–2026 — median $203, most falling between $60 and $375.
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, 2023-08-20. 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. 8 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.