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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-KPXR-YD64-E
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 smooth-finished straight billiard produced under the Oldenkott name in Germany, fitted with a 9mm filter system and preserved in the archive as an estate pipe of German origin. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe maker's repertoire: a cylindrical bowl set at a right angle to a straight shank of roughly equal length, with clean, unornamented lines that place all visual emphasis on the wood and the proportions. In its smooth, straight configuration, as here, the form represents the most classical expression of continental pipe making.
Oldenkott is one of the long-established names of the German tobacco trade, rooted in the Rhineland region's centuries-old commerce in tobacco goods, and pipes bearing the mark circulated widely within the German domestic market. The 9mm filter bore recorded on this example is itself a distinctly German feature. The paper-and-charcoal filter system originated in Germany in the early twentieth century and became so thoroughly standard in German production that a 9mm chamber in the shank is often the single clearest indicator of a pipe made for the German-speaking market. Such pipes take a disposable filter cartridge seated in the mortise between shank and stem, moderating the draw and absorbing moisture.
Dating the piece rests on general rather than specific evidence. Oldenkott pipes carry no factory date-code system of the kind used by houses such as Dunhill, so chronology must be built from stampings, stylistic cues, and market context. The presence of the 9mm system situates the pipe within the broad twentieth-century period in which that standard prevailed in Germany, and its estate provenance confirms prior ownership and use. On the documentation available, the honest conclusion is an undetermined twentieth-century date, recorded here as such rather than narrowed by conjecture. The pipe stands in the encyclopedia as a representative example of the everyday German filtered billiard.
2022-11-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-01.
2022-11-28
Sold through Etsy for USD 38. 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 (era 'undetermined, 20th century' -> undetermined).
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 2022-11-28 · 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 134 sales of Oldenkott between 2015–2026 — median $35, most falling between $24 and $55.
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, 2022-11-01. 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. 6 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.