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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-J8RM-64AW-X
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 Carey Magic Inch pipe in the straight billiard form, executed with a smooth finish. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe-making canon: a cylindrical bowl of roughly equal height and shank length, joined at a right angle to a straight shank and stem. Its proportions are the yardstick against which nearly all other classic shapes are measured, and a smooth-finished straight billiard represents the tradition at its most orthodox. The Magic Inch designation refers to Carey's signature smoking system, an American design in which a ventilated section between shank and stem houses a replaceable absorbent Papershell sleeve. The arrangement was conceived to draw ambient air into the smoke stream and to condense and absorb moisture before it reaches the mouthpiece — one of several mid-century engineering answers to the perennial problem of a wet smoke, and the feature on which the Carey brand built its identity through mail-order and direct sales in the United States. Dating rests on the patent stamping. Carey did not employ a factory date-coding system that would allow a narrower attribution from the stampings alone, so the patent-era bracket stands as the defensible conclusion. As an archive example, the piece documents the intersection of two traditions: the timeless English-derived billiard shape and the distinctly American appetite for patented system pipes that flourished in the postwar market.
2023-03-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-21.
2023-04-14
Sold through Etsy for USD 33. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
6 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 'Post-1966; 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 33sold 2023-04-14 · 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 28 sales of Carey between 2016–2024 — median $30, most falling between $19 and $38.
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, 2023-03-21. 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. 6 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.