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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-KM4E-N824-R
circa 1970s
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 documents a French estate pipe bearing the Pierre Cardin name, presented in a combination smooth and rustic finish and attributed by its owner to a 1970 design. The pairing of a polished smooth surface with rusticated texture on a single bowl is a treatment that enjoyed particular popularity in the design-conscious pipe production of the era, offering visual contrast between the natural grain of the wood and a deliberately carved, tactile relief. Pierre Cardin occupies an unusual position in pipe history. Pipes were among these ventures, and French-made pipes carrying the Cardin name reflect the period when fashion houses sought to place their mark on masculine accessories of every kind. Such pipes are less a product of a single workshop tradition than an artefact of a distinct cultural moment, when high-fashion branding met the established French pipe industry and its long-standing manufacturing expertise. Its identification as an estate piece confirms a working life prior to entering the record. Fashion-licensed pipes of this kind generally carry no factory date-coding system of the sort found on certain English marques, so the era must be established from design character and brand history rather than stamped codes.
2023-06-03
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-06-03.
2023-06-20
Sold through Etsy for USD 45. 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 (4 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 45sold 2023-06-20 · 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 Pierre Cardin between 2020–2026 — median $55, most falling between $37 and $75.
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, 2023-06-03. 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.