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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-J5GH-3CVQ-C
1976
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 smooth-finish English estate pipe from BBB's Special Make line, identified by its owner as a Christmas 1976 issue. As an estate piece, it entered the archive having seen prior use, and its smooth finish places it in the classic presentation favoured by the marque throughout its long production history. BBB stands among the oldest names in English pipe making. The mark descends from the London firm of A. Through the twentieth century the brand passed through the consolidations that reshaped the English pipe trade, ultimately coming under the Cadogan umbrella alongside other historic London names. The Special Make designation belongs to BBB's established range nomenclature, denoting a distinct grade tier within the firm's production rather than a shape. The dating of this example rests on the Christmas 1976 attribution supplied with the pipe. Seasonal Christmas issues occupy a particular niche in English pipe production of the period: unlike most factory pipes, which must be dated by trademark styles, nomenclature changes, or logo variations across decades of production, a Christmas-dated pipe carries its year explicitly, anchoring it to a single production season. Where such a year designation is present, it provides the firmest possible bracket for a factory pipe of this era — in this case, 1976, placing the piece squarely in the decade when the traditional English factories were producing under increasing consolidation yet still maintaining their established line structures.
2023-05-07
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-05-07.
2023-07-15
Sold through eBay for USD 95. 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 (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 95sold 2023-07-15 · eBay
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 113 sales of BBB between 2015–2025 — median $52, most falling between $35 and $71.
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, 2023-05-07. 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.