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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-KX5Q-7G3D-P
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 a Peterson pipe from the maker's Short line, executed in a rusticated finish and carrying the shape number 406, fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. It entered the archive as an Irish estate piece, meaning it saw prior service before being recorded here. Kapp & Peterson stands among the most historically significant names in pipe making. The fishtail is the standard open-slot mouthpiece, delivering smoke directly across the tongue rather than upward toward the palate as the P-Lip does, and its presence here marks the pipe as a non-System configuration. The Short line is characterised, as its name declares, by compact overall stature: bowls of standard capacity mounted on abbreviated shanks and stems, producing a pocketable pipe with full smoking geometry. Rustication — a deliberately carved, craggy surface texture — is a traditional Peterson treatment that disguises grain irregularities while giving the hand a secure, tactile grip and reducing weight relative to a smooth-finished blast of equal size. Dating a Peterson of this configuration is instructive precisely because it resists precision. Absent such anchors in this record, the honest attribution is simply a Peterson of the modern era of continuous Dublin production — a twentieth- to twenty-first-century example, era otherwise undetermined.
2023-02-15
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-15.
2023-03-10
Sold through eBay for USD 105. 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 'Twentieth to twenty-first centur' -> undetermined; 2 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 105sold 2023-03-10 · 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, 2023-02-15. 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. 8 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.