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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-HBHF-GPP5-P
2020
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 reference example documents a Peterson Calabash, shape 05, from the firm's Christmas 2020 annual edition, fitted with a 9mm filter system. The Calabash shape, in interpretation, takes its name and silhouette from the traditional gourd calabash popularised in the Edwardian era: a gracefully curved profile with a bowl that swells outward before tapering toward the rim, paired with a bent stem line. Peterson's shape 05 renders this form as a factory shape within its numbered range, and its inclusion in a filtered configuration reflects the firm's practice of offering many of its lines with a 9mm filter chamber for markets, particularly in continental Europe, where filtered smoking predominates. Dating in this instance is unusually straightforward. Peterson issues a Christmas edition annually, each finished and stamped for its specific year, so a pipe belonging to the Christmas 2020 release is fixed to that year by the edition itself rather than by hallmark sequences or catalogue cross-referencing, which are the usual tools for dating Peterson production. Annual holiday editions of this kind have become a fixture of the firm's modern output, typically distinguished by a dedicated finish and accent treatment applied across a selection of standard shapes for a single season. The era bracket for this example is therefore recorded with confidence as 2020, anchored by the named edition to which it belongs.
2024-11-20
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-11-20.
2024-11-21
Sold through Etsy for USD 125. 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 (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 125sold 2024-11-21 · 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, 2024-11-20. 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. 10 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.