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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-KWQT-DEXU-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 documents the DENICOTEA Krocket, shape number 2500, a straight pot rendered in a sandblast finish and attributed to German manufacture. The pot is among the most functional of the classic shape chart entries: a comparatively short, wide bowl set on a straight shank, giving the smoker a broad chamber in a compact, low-slung silhouette. The sandblast treatment, in which the softer grain of the wood is abraded away to leave a rugged, tactile relief, serves both decorative and practical ends, reducing weight and increasing the surface area through which the bowl sheds heat. The DENICOTEA name occupies a distinctive position in German smoking-goods history. The marque is most widely associated with its patented crystal filter system, a granulated absorbent cartridge that became a fixture of German-speaking pipe and cigarette-holder culture through the twentieth century, and the brand extended its identity into finished pipes marketed under model names such as the Krocket seen here. German factory pipes of this tradition were typically produced to consistent shape numbers, and the 2500 designation on this pattern reflects that catalogue-driven approach to production. Dating rests on the model and shape-number identification together with the stated German origin. On the present evidence the honest placement is simply an undetermined point within the twentieth-century output of the marque, with the Krocket 2500 designation serving as the firmest anchor for its identity.
2023-06-08
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-06-08.
2024-02-14
Sold through Etsy for USD 36. 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 20th century' -> undetermined; 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 36sold 2024-02-14 · 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 85 sales of DENICOTEA between 2017–2026 — median $32, most falling between $20 and $50.
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, 2023-06-08. 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.