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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-HPT2-76M4-V
Era 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 archive record documents an Irish estate example from Kapp & Peterson of Dublin: a straight Dublin rendered in the extended churchwarden format and fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. The pairing is instructive on two counts. First, the Dublin is among the oldest recognised bowl forms, characterised by walls that taper outward from base to rim so that the chamber flares as it rises — a silhouette long associated with Irish pipemaking and a natural signature shape for a Dublin firm. Second, the churchwarden configuration extends the shank-and-stem line to an unusually long reach, a format with roots in seventeenth-century clay pipes, prized for the cooling distance it places between chamber and mouth and for its distinctly reading-chair elegance. The fishtail mouthpiece deserves particular note in a Peterson context. Its presence here identifies this example as belonging to the standard-bit side of the firm's production. Within the Faridunhill archive, the piece stands as a reference for the Republic-era Peterson churchwarden: the venerable Dublin bowl, the long-stemmed format, and the fishtail bit together representing a conservative, historically resonant strand of the Dublin firm's twentieth-century output.
2023-11-29
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-11-29.
2023-12-04
Sold through Etsy for USD 87. 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 (era 'Republic era; 2 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 87sold 2023-12-04 · 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, 2023-11-29. 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.