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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-JC7K-8BXJ-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
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 an Orlik London Made straight Bulldog in a smooth finish, catalogued under the shape designation L27 and preserved in the archive as a previously smoked estate pipe of English origin. The Bulldog is one of the classic architectural shapes of the pipe world, traditionally characterised by a forward-canted bowl with twin bead lines incised around its widest circumference, a diamond-section shank, and a stem cut to continue that geometry through to the bit. In its straight configuration, as here, the shape presents a taut, angular profile that has remained a benchmark of disciplined shaping since the nineteenth century, demanding precise symmetry from the workshop that executes it. The 'London Made' designation places this example within the brand's English manufacturing tradition and functions as the principal identifying nomenclature, together with the L-prefixed shape code recorded for this piece. Orlik, like most English makers of its class, did not employ a factory date-coding system, so individual pipes cannot be pinned to a production year from their stampings alone; dating instead rests on nomenclature style, shape catalogues, and general period character. On the evidence recorded here, the honest conclusion is a twentieth-century English attribution, with the London Made line and the Bulldog shape number serving as the anchors of the identification.
2023-03-14
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-14.
2023-04-23
Sold through Etsy for USD 39. 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 '20th century' -> undetermined).
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 39sold 2023-04-23 · 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 62 sales of Orlik between 2017–2026 — median $45, most falling between $25 and $65.
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, 2023-03-14. 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.