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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-GEFX-AYAG-C
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 Carey Magic Inch pipe executed as a straight Billiard with a sandblast finish, bearing the patent number 3267941 that defines the brand's signature smoking system. The Billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe-making canon: a cylindrical bowl set at roughly a right angle to a shank of comparable length, with clean, unadorned lines that make it the standard against which most other shapes are measured. Rendered here in sandblast, the surface presents the relief texture produced by blasting the stummel to expose the natural ring grain beneath, a finish prized for its light weight in the hand and its tactile character. The Carey brand, an American marque, built its identity around the Magic Inch system referenced in the stamping. The system interposes a ventilated section between bowl and mouthpiece, traditionally fitted with a replaceable absorbent papyrate sleeve, with the stated aim of cooling and drying the smoke by admitting air and wicking away moisture before it reaches the smoker. This engineering-first approach places Carey within the mid-twentieth-century tradition of 'system' pipes, alongside better-known predecessors that likewise sought to solve the perennial problems of heat and condensate through patented internal design. Dating rests on the patent stamping itself. As such, this example serves the archive as a clear illustration of both the classic Billiard form and the distinctive patented cooling system that defined the Carey name.
2022-12-11
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-11.
2023-01-02
Sold through Etsy for USD 33. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
6 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 'mid-1960s onward' -> undetermined; 2 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 33sold 2023-01-02 · 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 28 sales of Carey between 2016–2024 — median $30, most falling between $19 and $38.
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, 2022-12-11. 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.