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2 photographsArchive Record FUH-FPKH-AVX8-D
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 Hilson Classic 400S represents a smooth-finished straight billiard pipe from the Belgian manufacturer's Classic series. The pipe features the model number 400S, indicating a specific shape configuration within the Hilson catalog. Characterized by its traditional straight billiard form, the pipe exhibits a cylindrical bowl with upright stance and a tapered fishtail stem that provides a classic smoking profile. The smooth finish allows the natural grain of the to be fully appreciated. As an estate pipe, it has seen previous use, though the extent of smoking history remains unspecified. The stampings include both the Hilson Classic line designation and the shape number, consistent with the manufacturer's marking practices. The dating relies on the estate designation rather than specific factory date codes, placing it in the undetermined era bracket typical of many Hilson pipes that lack precise chronological markers.
2020-03-18
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2020-03-18.
2020-04-03
Sold through eBay for USD 35. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 35sold 2020-04-03 · 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 70 sales of Hilson between 2016–2026 — median $40, most falling between $25 and $65.
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, 2020-03-18. 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. 2 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.