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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-H9PE-CFFH-E
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 straight paneled billiard attributed to the German brand Heibe, carrying the shape number 0400 and finished in sandblast. The paneled billiard is a long-established variation on the classic billiard form: where the standard billiard presents a fully rounded bowl of roughly equal proportion to its shank, the paneled version cuts flat facets into the bowl's circumference, producing a geometric, architectural silhouette while retaining the billiard's upright chamber and straight, level shank-and-stem line. Combining paneling with a sandblast finish is a deliberate textural choice — the blasting process erodes the softer material of the surface to reveal the underlying grain structure in relief, and on a faceted bowl this creates alternating planes of rugged texture framed by crisp panel edges. Germany holds a significant place in pipe history, with production centred historically around towns such as Nuremberg and, in the modern era, a robust factory and workshop tradition that has supplied both domestic and export markets. Numbered shape systems, such as the 0400 designation seen here, are characteristic of catalogue-driven factory production, in which each standard form is assigned a code for ordering and identification. The Heibe name itself is thinly documented in the general literature, and the attribution here rests on the previous owner's statement rather than independently corroborated marque records. Dating this piece depends on the shape-number stamping and the stated German origin, neither of which alone anchors a production year.
2022-12-26
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-26.
2023-06-13
Sold through Etsy for USD 40. 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).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 40sold 2023-06-13 · 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 25 sales of Heibe between 2015–2026 — median $25, most falling between $20 and $45.
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, 2022-12-26. 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.