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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-KPAD-BMHA-E
2018
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
No
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 record documents a Peterson pipe from the St. Patrick's Day 2018 series, executed in the house's shape 999 and fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. The St. Patrick's Day series is issued once per year, each edition carrying its own finish treatment and stamped identity, which makes the series unusually straightforward to place in time: the edition name itself functions as the dating evidence, anchoring this example firmly to 2018 rather than requiring interpretation of hallmark cycles or catalogue changes. The shape 999 is one of Peterson's enduring numbered forms, a compact bent design of the Rhodesian family that has remained in the company's shape chart for generations and is frequently chosen as the vehicle for its commemorative releases. The fishtail mouthpiece noted here is a meaningful specification within the Peterson catalogue, since the firm produces many of its pipes with the proprietary P-Lip bit; a fishtail example instead presents the conventional flattened, open-slot orifice familiar from most makers' work, a distinction Peterson enthusiasts track closely when identifying variants within a given series. As a reference example, this pipe illustrates how Peterson's annual editions marry a long-standing catalogue shape with a year-specific dress, and how such series-based production allows precise dating in a field where many makers' work can only be bracketed by decades. The record preserves the pairing of series, year, shape number, and mouthpiece type as the defining identifiers of the piece.
2022-11-29
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-29.
2022-12-02
Sold through eBay for USD 110. 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 (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 110sold 2022-12-02 · 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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2022-11-29. 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.