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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-J6WG-HRHK-W
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 reference example documents a Peterson Premier System pipe in shape 309, finished in sandblast and fitted with the firm's signature P-Lip mouthpiece. The second is the P-Lip, a graduated mouthpiece whose smoke hole opens on the upper surface of the button rather than at its end, directing the smoke toward the roof of the mouth. The Premier designation sits in the middle of Peterson's System hierarchy, above the Standard grade, and denotes better-figured stummels within the System range. Shape 309 belongs to Peterson's numbered System catalogue of bent shapes, the classic silhouette with which the marque is most closely identified, and the sandblast treatment on this example emphasises the 's grain structure in relief rather than presenting a smooth stained surface. Dating a Peterson depends chiefly on its stampings: the country-of-manufacture line evolved through forms such as 'Made in Ireland' and 'Made in the Republic of Ireland,' and silver-banded examples may carry Dublin hallmarks that fix a year precisely. The pipe entered the archive as an Irish estate piece, and the record therefore treats its history of use as owner-stated fact rather than factory documentation.
2023-03-08
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-08.
2023-03-08
Sold through eBay for USD 145. 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 'undetermined; broad span of Pete' -> undetermined; 3 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 145sold 2023-03-08 · 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 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, 2023-03-08. 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.