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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-KJD6-FGHA-C
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 miniature vest pocket tobacco pipe identified by its owner as an Egra of the SPORT line, finished in sandblast. The vest pocket form is one of the more charming byways of pipe design: a deliberately diminutive pipe, scaled to slip into a waistcoat or jacket pocket, made for the smoker who wanted a short, discreet smoke while travelling, walking, or working outdoors. The genre flourished when pocket watches and vest wear were still commonplace, and small-bowl pipes of this type were marketed by many makers as sporting or travelling companions — a context to which the SPORT designation speaks directly. The sandblast finish seen here is a treatment in which the surface of the bowl is blasted with abrasive to strip away softer material and reveal the underlying grain structure in relief. Beyond its tactile appeal, sandblasting produces a rugged, matte exterior well suited to a pipe intended for outdoor carry, resisting the scratches and handling marks that a smooth polished surface would show. The piece entered the archive through the estate trade, meaning it passed through prior ownership and use before being catalogued. Its dating rests on the owner's identification rather than on documented factory marks, and the Egra name does not carry a widely published dating system comparable to the date codes of the major English houses; the honest conclusion is therefore an undetermined era, with the estate channel and the vest pocket genre supplying the interpretive frame. It stands in the encyclopedia as a representative example of the miniature sporting pipe in sandblasted finish.
2023-03-26
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-26.
2023-08-17
Sold through Etsy for USD 39. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 39sold 2023-08-17 · 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 16 sales of Egra between 2017–2023 — median $29, most falling between $20 and $48.
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, 2023-03-26. 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. 8 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.