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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-KWQK-GHDE-D
20th century, English production; precise period 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 an English estate pipe recorded as a MASTA Patent Popular, shape 14T, executed as a smooth straight billiard. The straight billiard is the foundational shape of the English pipe tradition: a cylindrical bowl set at a right angle to a straight shank of roughly equal length, with clean, unornamented lines that place the emphasis on proportion and on the grain of the wood. A smooth finish, as seen here, presents the surface of the stummel without rustication or sandblasting, the classic treatment for the shape. The MASTA name occupies an interesting corner of London pipe history. The 'Patent' designation in the line name reflects the era's common practice among English makers of branding pipes around patented construction or smoking-system features, a marketing convention that flourished through the early and middle decades of the twentieth century. 'Popular' identifies the specific series within the MASTA range, and 14T is the catalogued shape designation for this straight billiard form. Dating rests on the identity of the marque and the owner's attribution rather than on a factory date code. Unlike Dunhill's principal line, which carried a well-documented system of date stamps, secondary English marques of this kind were generally stamped only with brand, line, and shape number, so a precise year cannot be fixed from the record. On the strength of the brand's period of activity and the estate attribution, the honest placement is twentieth-century English production, with the exact decade left undetermined.
2022-12-11
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-11.
2022-12-22
Sold through Etsy for USD 65. 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 65sold 2022-12-22 · 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 9 sales of MASTA between 2017–2026 — median $50, 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, 2022-12-11. 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.