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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-K2PM-WK99-R
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
No
owner stated
Stem replaced or re-cut
Yes
owner stated
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 is a smooth-finished straight billiard from the Sovereign line of BBB, carrying the shape number 653 and made in England. The pipe is preserved with a replacement stem, a fact recorded here as part of its documented history rather than as any judgement of the piece; the original mouthpiece was at some point exchanged, a common event in the working life of an estate pipe that has passed through use. BBB stands among the most historically significant names in British pipe making. For well over a century BBB pipes were exported worldwide, and lines such as Sovereign represented the firm's standard smooth-finished production, offered across the classic English shape chart. The billiard is the archetypal English shape: a cylindrical bowl of roughly equal height and shank length, walls of even thickness, and a straight stem completing an unbroken horizontal line from bit to bowl. It is the benchmark against which pipe proportion is traditionally judged, and shape 653 places this example squarely within that canonical form. The smooth finish displays the natural surface of the stummel without rustication or sandblasting. Dating a BBB of this type rests on the maker's marks and line name rather than any factory date code, since BBB, like most English houses apart from Dunhill, did not stamp its pipes with year-specific codes.
2022-11-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-01.
2022-12-29
Sold through Etsy for USD 48. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
3 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; 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 48sold 2022-12-29 · 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 113 sales of BBB between 2015–2025 — median $52, most falling between $35 and $71.
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, 2022-11-01. 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.