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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-GN6F-343G-P
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
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 smooth-finished churchwarden of small size, attributed by its owner to the Dutch brand Big Ben and recorded as an estate piece — that is, a pipe with prior use. The churchwarden is among the most immediately recognisable forms in pipe making: a conventional bowl mated to a dramatically elongated stem, a configuration descended from the long clay pipes of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. The extended stem serves a practical purpose beyond its silhouette, allowing the smoke a longer path in which to cool before reaching the mouthpiece, which is why the form has never entirely left production despite its unwieldy proportions. The description of this example as small-sized indicates a bowl scaled down from the standard, a pairing that keeps the overall pipe light despite the length of its stem. The firm built its reputation on machine-made pipes produced in consistent series, and the English-inflected brand name reflects the mid-century Dutch industry's orientation toward international export markets. The 'Holland' designation in the owner's record accords with the brand's country of origin. Dating a factory pipe of this kind rests on stampings, series names, and stylistic details, since Big Ben, like most Dutch factory brands, employed no systematic date code comparable to those of certain English houses.
2022-10-13
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-13.
2022-12-09
Sold through Etsy for USD 54. 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 (era '20th to early 21st century, unde' -> undetermined; 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).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 54sold 2022-12-09 · 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 53 sales of Big Ben between 2015–2026 — median $60, most falling between $20 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, 2022-10-13. 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. 6 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.