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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-KMJY-YYKW-9
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
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 German estate pipe from Vauen, presented in the maker's Whistle line with a smooth Ebony finish and fitted for the 9mm filter system. The Ebony designation within Vauen's catalogue denotes a deep, dark smooth finish, giving the pipe a uniform, near-black surface in contrast to the natural and contrast-stained treatments found elsewhere in the firm's range. Vauen — Vereinigte Pfeifenfabriken Nürnberg — occupies a foundational place in German pipe history. The company is most closely associated with the 9mm activated-charcoal filter, a system it helped popularise through its Dr. Perl filter, which became the dominant standard in the German-speaking market. The Whistle designation identifies the model within Vauen's named-series production, where finish variants such as Ebony are offered across a run of factory shapes rather than tied to a single form. Dating rests on the line attribution and the filter system rather than on a factory date code, as Vauen production stamps identify brand and model but do not encode a year of manufacture.
2023-11-17
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-11-17.
2024-03-29
Sold through eBay for USD 119. 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 (era 'Undetermined — modern Vauen prod' -> undetermined; 1 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).
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 119sold 2024-03-29 · eBay
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, 2023-11-17. 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.