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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-G82V-VWED-Y
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 German estate pipe recorded under the HHB marque, presented as a handmade piece from the Starline series with the President designation and the shape number 77, executed in the tomato form. The tomato is one of the classic rounded shapes of the pipe maker's repertoire: a compressed, ball-like bowl broader than it is tall, its shoulders swelling outward before curving back to a narrow rim, typically paired with a shank set low on the bowl so that the whole composition sits close to a horizontal line. The form rewards careful grain orientation, since the continuous curvature of the bowl exposes the 's figure around its full circumference, and it has long been favoured by workshop carvers as a demonstration of freehand turning skill within a traditional silhouette. Germany maintains one of Europe's substantial pipe-making traditions, and marques of this kind operated within a market that prized handwork designations; the Handmade stamp on such pipes signals production outside fully mechanised factory lines. The Starline series name and the President grade, together with the numeric shape stamp 77, follow the common German convention of pairing a series identity with a graded designation and a catalogue shape number. Dating rests on the stampings alone. On that basis the era remains an honest open bracket: a German handmade estate pipe of the HHB Starline line, documented by its stamps rather than by any fixed year, and preserved here as a reference for the marque, the President grade, and the tomato shape it represents.
2022-09-29
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-09-29.
2022-10-29
Sold through eBay for USD 38. 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).
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 38sold 2022-10-29 · 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 8 sales of HHB between 2022–2024 — median $42, most falling between $24 and $48.
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, 2022-09-29. 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.