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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-K5BX-AFMW-3
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 in a bent Dublin form, finished partially smooth and partially rusticated, with the natural plateau crust of the burl retained at the rim. The Dublin is one of the oldest recognised pipe shapes, defined by a bowl whose walls flare outward from a narrower base to a wider mouth; here the shape is presented in a bent configuration, with the retained plateau top lending the crown an organic, unworked texture that contrasts with the mixed smooth and rustic treatment of the bowl's flanks. The Carey name belongs to E. A. Rather than a conventional in-channel filter, the Magic Inch interposes a ventilated chamber between bowl and mouthpiece, fitted with a replaceable absorbent paper sleeve — marketed as the Papyrate sleeve — through which outside air is drawn to mix with, cool, and dry the smoke stream. The design was heavily promoted through direct-mail advertising in the decades after its introduction and became one of the most widely distributed 'system' pipes of its era. Dating rests on the patent citation itself. A patent number establishes only a firm earliest boundary: the pipe cannot predate the grant, but Carey continued to stamp the number on production for many years afterward. The record preserves the piece as a representative document of mid-century American system-pipe engineering applied to a classic Dublin silhouette.
2023-01-24
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-24.
2023-01-28
Sold through Etsy for USD 49. 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; 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 49sold 2023-01-28 · 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 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, 2023-01-24. 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.