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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-GADU-5XP5-9
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 Savinelli churchwarden from the maker's Clark's Favorite line, finished in a rusticated texture and fitted with a 6mm filter system. The churchwarden is among the oldest surviving pipe forms in the Western tradition: an extended shank and long stem carry the smoke a considerable distance from the bowl, cooling it before it reaches the bit, and giving the pipe its characteristic slender, elongated silhouette. The rusticated finish — a deliberately carved, textured surface worked into the bowl — is a hallmark treatment across many Savinelli lines, providing a tactile grip and masking the natural grain of the wood beneath. Savinelli itself occupies a central position in Italian pipe history. The company is closely associated with the filtered smoking system, and the 6mm filter channel in this example places it within that tradition of engineered smoke management. Clark's Favorite is one of the named series within the broader Savinelli catalogue, applied here to the churchwarden format. On the question of dating, this record must remain candid: Savinelli, unlike a small number of makers who stamped date codes on their work, employed no factory date-coding system. Attribution of a Savinelli pipe to a specific production year therefore depends on the evolution of line names, logos, and packaging rather than any single stamp, and no such corroborating evidence accompanies this example. The pipe is accordingly archived as an Italian-made Savinelli estate piece of undetermined era, its identity resting on the owner's statement of brand, line, shape, and filter gauge.
2024-03-05
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-03-05.
2024-03-06
Sold through Etsy for USD 135. 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).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 135sold 2024-03-06 · 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 sample this sits in: Faridunhill has recorded 229 sales of Savinelli between 2015–2026 — median $65, most falling between $40 and $135.
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, 2024-03-05. 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. 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.