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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-JVJH-27J6-2
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 documents a Carey Magic Inch pipe executed as a straight Billiard with an oval-section shank and a smooth finish. The Billiard is the foundational shape of the modern pipe repertoire: an upright cylindrical bowl set on a straight shank, here rendered with the oval shank cross-section that softens the profile and broadens the visual line of the pipe when viewed from above. The Magic Inch is the signature product of E. A. The line takes its name from the distinctive system built into the shank: a ventilated chamber, bridged by a replaceable absorbent paper sleeve, interposed between bowl and mouthpiece. The design was promoted as drawing air into the smoke stream and wicking away moisture and tars before they reached the smoker, and it made the Carey name one of the most widely advertised in mid-century American pipe smoking. Pipes in the line carry the system's patent markings as part of their standard nomenclature. Dating this piece rests on the patent citation itself. The pipe carries U.S. Patent No. A patent number functions as a terminus post quem: no pipe could bear the marking before the patent existed, so the stamp fixes the earliest possible date of manufacture while the line's long production run leaves the later boundary open. Carey pipes do not carry factory date codes of the kind used by houses such as Dunhill, so finer resolution within the production period is not possible from the stampings alone.
2023-07-12
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-12.
2024-05-05
Sold through Etsy for USD 40. 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, second half of the 20' -> undetermined; 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 40sold 2024-05-05 · 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, 2023-07-12. 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.