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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-GNDF-VPQB-Q
2023
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 record documents a Peterson tobacco pipe from the St. Patrick's Day 2023 commemorative release, executed in the maker's shape 268 with a rusticated finish and a fishtail mouthpiece. The rusticated surface — a deliberately carved, craggy texture applied to the bowl — is a hallmark treatment across many Peterson series, prized for its tactile grip and its ability to disperse heat across an irregular surface. The fishtail bit, flattened and flared at the button, is the conventional open-draw alternative to Peterson's proprietary P-Lip, and its presence here identifies this as the standard-mouthpiece variant of the release. The St. Patrick's Day series is one of the firm's recurring annual editions, issued each year around the national holiday in a distinct finish and trim, and drawn from across the standard Peterson shape chart. Shape 268 is one of those catalogue numbers, and its appearance in this series places a classic house form within a dated commemorative dress. Dating this pipe requires no interpretive detective work of the kind demanded by makers without factory codes. Peterson's annual commemorative lines carry their year in the very name of the series, so the St. Patrick's Day 2023 designation fixes production to a single year. This makes such editions unusually useful reference points in an archive: where most estate must be bracketed by stamp styles, country-of-origin marks, or catalogue appearances, an annual edition anchors itself. The era bracket for this example is therefore recorded, with confidence, as 2023.
2023-11-28
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-11-28.
2023-12-06
Sold through Etsy for USD 165. 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 (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 165sold 2023-12-06 · 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 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, 2023-11-28. 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.