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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-JPFN-88QW-E
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 documents a briar Rhodesian from the Aldo Morelli STRUTTURA line, carrying the catalogue designation 2694 and fitted for the 9mm filter system. The bowl is executed in a combined semi-smooth and rusticated treatment, a two-texture approach in which portions of the stummel are left smooth to display the briar's surface while adjacent areas are worked into a rugged, carved relief — a finish style favoured by many continental production houses for the tactile contrast it lends the hand.
The Rhodesian is among the classic chart shapes of the twentieth century: a squat, rounded bowl traditionally defined by one or more beadlines encircling a domed cap, most often paired with a bent or partially bent stem. It stands as the curved-profile cousin of the Bulldog, with which it shares the beaded waist, and it remains a staple of nearly every factory shape catalogue.
Aldo Morelli is a marque associated with serial production briar pipes, and the STRUTTURA stamping identifies a specific finish line within that output rather than an individual carver's grade. The 9mm filter bore is itself instructive: this system became the prevailing convention across German-speaking and broader continental European markets in the post-war decades, and its presence places the pipe firmly within that tradition of filtered factory pipework.
As to dating, the stampings on this example — the line name STRUTTURA and the number 2694 — function as model and shape identification within a production catalogue rather than as a chronological code. Numbering of this kind allows a pipe to be matched to its place in a maker's shape chart, but it does not by itself fix a year of manufacture. The record therefore rests on the owner-stated identification of brand, line, shape and filter system, and the era bracket is held as undetermined pending catalogue correlation.
2022-11-16
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-16.
2022-11-28
Sold through Etsy for USD 53. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
6 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 53sold 2022-11-28 · 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 20 sales of Aldo Morelli between 2019–2026 — median $49, most falling between $30 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, 2022-11-16. 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. 7 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.