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4 photographsArchive Record FUH-HQ4A-2XHB-Y
pre-1980
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 Comoy's Trident represents the archetypal English Pot shape, designated by the model number 161. The pipe features a smooth bowl with classic straight proportions characteristic of traditional English pipe making. The Pot shape is distinguished by its broad, capacious chamber, which the manufacturer designed specifically to accommodate complex tobacco mixtures favored by discerning smokers. The Trident line represents one of Comoy's established series within their production. Dating of this example is based on the owner's assessment placing it before 1980, a period when Comoy's maintained particular manufacturing traditions. The pipe exhibits the straightforward, functional elegance that defines the Pot shape, with its wide bowl offering both visual substance and practical smoking properties tailored to blend enthusiasts.
2020-12-26
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2020-12-26.
2026-08-27
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 (parts.bowl_material 'briar' removed).
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.
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, 2020-12-26. 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. 4 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.