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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-FXJF-G4UY-5
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 French estate pipe from Butz-Choquin, catalogued in the maker's ROCAMAR line and carrying shape number 1150, a bent bulldog fitted with a 9mm filter system. The bulldog is one of the classical pipe forms, defined by a bowl of doubled-cone profile — a wider upper cone meeting a tapering lower one — traditionally separated by one or two incised rings at the bowl's waist, and paired with a diamond-section shank. In its bent configuration, as here, the shank and stem curve downward from the bowl, lending the pipe a lower centre of gravity in the hand and a more relaxed carriage than the straight rendering of the same shape. Butz-Choquin holds a significant place in French pipe history. The firm's output spans a wide range of named series, of which ROCAMAR is one, each series identified on the pipe together with a numeric shape code — the 1150 stamped on this example serving that cataloguing function. The 9mm filter bore is itself an instructive detail: this filter standard became widespread in continental European pipe production in the postwar decades and remains dominant in French and German factory pipes today. Butz-Choquin did not employ a factory date-coding system, so individual pipes cannot be pinned to a production year from their stampings alone. Taken together — the modern series name, numeric shape code, and 9mm system — the evidence supports an honest bracket of late twentieth to early twenty-first century production, with the precise year left undetermined.
2022-10-23
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-23.
2022-10-28
Sold through eBay for USD 45. 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 (era 'late 20th to 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 45sold 2022-10-28 · 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 59 sales of Butz-Choquin between 2018–2026 — median $50, most falling between $33 and $115.
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, 2022-10-23. 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.