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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-KGDA-FM3C-R
1930s–1960s (owner-stated production window of the Portland Pipe Company)
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 is a smooth, straight apple-shaped filter pipe recorded under the Portland brand with the shape number 418, attributed by its owner to the Portland Pipe Company of England. The pipe is built in the Danish filter idiom, accepting a 9mm filter, and is fitted with a straight stem terminating in a wide fishtail mouthpiece — a bit profile prized for its thin, flared comfort between the teeth. The apple is among the classic chart shapes of the twentieth century: a rounded, fruit-like bowl on a straight or bent shank, understood as a softened evolution of the billiard, from which it borrows its proportions while exchanging the billiard's cylindrical bowl for gently curved walls. The pairing of an apple bowl with a 9mm filter shank reflects the mid-century Continental and Danish preference for filtered smoking systems. Recorded dimensions place the pipe at 5.5 inches in length, with a bowl height of 1.8 inches, a chamber measuring 0.75 inches, and a weight of 1.4 ounces — a genuinely light pipe suited to clenching, consistent with its fishtail bit. The honest bracket is therefore the owner-stated working period of the Portland Pipe Company, roughly the 1930s through the 1960s, with the Danish-influenced styling most consonant with the later portion of that window.
2025-10-20
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2025-10-20.
2026-07-24
Sold through Etsy for USD 69. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-28
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 (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 69sold 2026-07-24 · 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 17 sales of Portland between 2019–2026 — median $39, most falling between $15 and $52.
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, 2025-10-20. 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. 7 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.