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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-G8VW-TJR2-N
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
No
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 Peterson Aran in shape XL02, a bent apple of the maker's extra-large class, finished in sandblast. The apple form is defined by a rounded, gently compressed bowl of nearly spherical profile, and in its bent configuration the shank and stem curve downward to bring the mouthpiece back toward the smoker, lowering the bowl's carry in the hand. The XL prefix in Peterson's numbering denotes an oversized rendering of the shape, giving the pipe greater bowl mass than the standard catalogue equivalents. The sandblast treatment strips away the softer growth of the surface to expose the underlying grain structure in relief, a finish long favoured for its texture and reduced weight relative to smooth-finished stock of comparable size. The Aran belongs to Peterson's unmounted lines — series presented without the silver or nickel banding that distinguishes the maker's dressier ranges — and has served as one of the marque's accessible standard-production families, offered across the full spread of Peterson shape numbers in both smooth and sandblast finishes. Dating a Peterson of this kind is a matter of inference rather than decoding. The company has never used a factory date code on its ; the ARAN line stamp and the XL02 shape number identify what the pipe is, not when it was made. Where a Peterson carries a hallmarked sterling band, the assay marks can fix a year, but an unmounted example such as this offers no such anchor. Its era of manufacture therefore remains honestly undetermined, bounded only by the production span of the Aran line itself.
2022-03-02
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-03-02.
2022-08-20
Sold through eBay for USD 85. 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 (3 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 85sold 2022-08-20 · 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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2022-03-02. 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.