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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-K58D-RV2X-C
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 is a smooth-finished bent volcano from the Valsesia Filtro line of Lorenzo, the Italian pipe house whose name became one of the most widely distributed marques of Italy's volume industry. The Valsesia designation belongs to Lorenzo's practice of naming its lines after northern Italian places, in this case the Valsesia valley of Piedmont, while the Filtro suffix identifies the line's defining mechanical feature: the shank is proportioned to accept a 9mm filter, a system that spread through Continental European pipe making in the second half of the twentieth century and remains standard on German and Italian filter pipes today. The volcano is among the more sculptural of the classic shape families. Its bowl rises from a broad, spreading base and tapers steadily toward a narrower rim, recalling the profile of a volcanic cone; here the form is rendered in a smooth finish and paired with a bent stem, which lowers the bowl in the hand and gives the pipe a compact, forward-weighted silhouette characteristic of the shape. The pipe carries the marking 42Y8712 F, recorded here as it appears in the source. Lorenzo, like most Italian factory producers, did not employ a systematic factory date code of the kind found on certain English marques, so the nomenclature identifies the line and production series rather than a year of manufacture. Dating therefore rests on the brand attribution itself and on the 9mm filter architecture, which together place the pipe within the broad span of twentieth-century Italian filter-pipe production.
2022-12-02
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-02.
2023-01-14
Sold through Etsy for USD 52. 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 'undetermined; 1 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 52sold 2023-01-14 · 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 212 sales of Lorenzo between 2016–2026 — median $44, most falling between $25 and $70.
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, 2022-12-02. 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.