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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-KEA2-GTFA-R
vintage, exact period 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 Vauen Bruyere Extra, model 2015, executed as a smooth bent billiard with a nickel band fitted as an army mount. The Bruyere Extra designation identifies the line within the Vauen catalogue, and the bowl is , as the line name itself declares — bruyère being the traditional French term for the burlwood of Erica arborea from which quality pipe bowls are cut. The stem follows the bent profile characteristic of this shape family, joining the shank through the army-mount construction, in which a metal band reinforces the shank mouth and the stem seats by friction push-fit rather than by a conventional mortise-and-tenon joint. The arrangement, historically favoured by soldiers for its resilience and ease of disassembly, remains a hallmark of many German production pipes. The firm is widely credited with pioneering and popularising the 9mm filter system that became standard across the German market, and its production has long stood for consistent machine-era quality with hand-finishing. The bent billiard is among the most enduring shapes in pipe making: a cylindrical bowl of classic billiard proportion set on a curved shank-and-stem line that drops the bowl below the smoker's sightline and shifts weight toward the hand. The smooth finish here displays the 's natural surface without rustication or blast. Dating rests on the owner's description of the pipe as a vintage German estate. Vauen model numbers identify shape and line rather than year of manufacture, and no dated stampings are documented for this example, so the record closes on an honest bracket: vintage, exact period undetermined.
2023-03-11
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-11.
2023-04-01
Sold through Etsy for USD 49. 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 (parts.bowl_material 'briar' removed; 1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (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 49sold 2023-04-01 · 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 248 sales of Vauen between 2016–2026 — median $60, most falling between $31 and $123.
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, 2023-03-11. 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.