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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-GUTD-4AGY-6
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 Peterson bulldog in the maker's Solstice line, executed in a sandblast finish and fitted for the 9mm filter system, carrying the factory shape number 150. The bulldog is one of the canonical shapes of the era: a bowl formed of two truncated cones meeting at a pronounced beadline around the waist, set on a diamond-section shank. It is a shape that rewards sandblasting, since the finish follows the grain in relief across the twin cones while the beadline holds its crisp geometry, and Peterson has kept the form in its catalogue across generations of production. The 9mm filter fitting seen here reflects the firm's accommodation of the filter-smoking market, in which a widened mortise accepts a standard charcoal or paper filter between stem and shank; the pipe functions equally with an adaptor or with the filter omitted. Dating a Peterson requires explanation, because the firm has never used a systematic factory date code on its standard lines. Chronology is conventionally established through hallmarked sterling mounts where present, through changes in stamping nomenclature, or through documented catalogue runs of named series. For this example, the attribution rests on the owner-stated line name Solstice and the shape number 150, which place it securely within Peterson's Dublin production and its 9mm-filter output; the archive assigns it to that production honestly, without claiming a narrower bracket than the evidence supports.
2022-12-07
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-07.
2022-12-23
Sold through eBay for USD 140. 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 140sold 2022-12-23 · 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, 2022-12-07. 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.