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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-KNKT-HGUJ-H
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 smooth-finished bent apple of Austrian origin, carried in the Faridunhill archive under the LORENZ marque with the line designation Innsbruck Bruyere Luxus. The stummel is turned from — the burl of Erica arborea, signalled here by the traditional trade term 'Bruyere' — and finished smooth, allowing the natural grain of the wood to serve as the principal ornament. The pipe is fitted with a 9mm filter system, the standard bore of the Central European filter convention, in which a disposable charcoal or paper filter seats within an enlarged tenon channel between shank and stem. The bent apple is one of the classic rounded forms of the pipe-maker's vocabulary: a squat, gently spherical bowl of softer profile than the billiard, paired here with a curved stem that drops the bit below the axis of the shank. The bend shifts the pipe's weight toward the hand and jaw, a configuration long favoured for comfortable clenching, while the apple bowl's thick, rounded walls lend the shape its characteristically compact, tactile presence. The LORENZ name, coupled with the Innsbruck designation, places the pipe within the Austrian pipe trade, whose output — like that of neighbouring Germany — has for decades been oriented around the 9mm filter that this example carries. The 'Luxus' suffix follows the German-language convention of denoting an upper finish tier within a maker's range. The honest conclusion is therefore an undetermined era of manufacture, with the filter system and line nomenclature consistent with twentieth-century Austrian production. The pipe is preserved here as a shape and marque reference for the LORENZ name.
2022-10-12
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-12.
2022-11-17
Sold through Etsy for USD 65. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 (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 65sold 2022-11-17 · 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 217 sales of LORENZ between 2016–2026 — median $44, most falling between $25 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, 2022-10-12. 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.