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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-H5MC-63E6-V
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 documents a Baraccini bent billiard, catalogued under shape number 1002 and belonging to the maker's Onda Marrone line — a name that translates from the Italian as 'brown wave', consonant with the pipe's dark sandblasted dress. The form is one of the most enduring in the pipe maker's repertoire: the bent billiard pairs the billiard's cylindrical bowl and proportional discipline with a curved shank-and-stem line that drops the bowl below the smoker's sightline and shifts weight toward the hand. The sandblast treatment strips away the softer material of the surface to reveal the grain structure in relief, producing a tactile, craggy texture that is both decorative and practical, as the increased surface area is traditionally held to dissipate heat.
Baraccini stands within the broader Italian pipe-making tradition, a national school long associated with expressive finishes and confident, generously proportioned interpretations of classic English shapes. The Onda Marrone designation functions here as a finish-and-series marking, with the four-digit number 1002 serving as the factory's shape reference — a cataloguing convention common among Italian workshops, where a numeric code identifies the profile across the range of finishes offered.
Dating the piece rests on the identification supplied with it: an Italian estate pipe attributed to Baraccini in the Onda Marrone series. The brand employs no factory date-code system of the kind used by houses such as Dunhill, so a year of manufacture cannot be fixed from nomenclature alone; the model designation and line name place it within the maker's serial production, and the era is otherwise left honestly undetermined. The pipe is preserved in the Faridunhill archive as a documented instance of an Italian factory bent billiard in sandblast finish, and as a type specimen for the Baraccini Onda Marrone line.
2024-03-16
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-03-16.
2024-03-25
Sold through Etsy for USD 85. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 85sold 2024-03-25 · 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 8 sales of Baraccini between 2022–2025 — median $85, most falling between $55 and $89.
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, 2024-03-16. 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.