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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-G82J-BBT7-F
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 documents a Corana straight billiard of Italian manufacture, executed in a smooth finish and configured in the compact proportions the trade describes as a 'Fatboy' or vest pocket pipe. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe canon: a cylindrical bowl set at a right angle to a shank of roughly equal length, with a straight stem completing the line. The Fatboy variation compresses these classical proportions into a shorter, stouter silhouette intended to ride comfortably in a waistcoat or jacket pocket — a format with a long tradition among working smokers who valued portability over ceremony. The squat bowl and abbreviated shank give the form its nickname while preserving the billiard's essential geometry. Corana belongs to the broad field of twentieth-century Italian pipe production, an industry centred historically in the rich regions of the peninsula, where access to Mediterranean Erica arborea burl made Italy one of the world's principal sources of both raw and finished pipes. Italian workshops of this tier typically supplied honest, serviceable smoking instruments in classic shapes for domestic and export markets, and the smooth straight billiard was a staple of such catalogues. Dating rests on the stampings the pipe carries: the CORANA brand mark accompanied by an Italy country-of-origin stamp. It stands in the archive as a representative specimen of the Italian vest pocket billiard in its compact Fatboy interpretation.
2023-01-05
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-05.
2023-01-22
Sold through Etsy for USD 36. 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).
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 36sold 2023-01-22 · 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 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, 2023-01-05. 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.