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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-M395-QQGE-G
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 an Aldo Morelli briar pipe from the maker's INFINITY line, carrying shape number 598 and executed in the Rhodesian form. The Rhodesian is among the classic bowl shapes of the pipe-making canon: a squat, rounded bowl divided by one or more beadlines at its widest circumference, giving the profile a distinctive double-domed silhouette that separates it from its close cousin, the bulldog, which shares the beadline treatment but pairs it with a diamond shank rather than a round one. It is a shape prized for putting generous chamber capacity into a compact, hand-filling bowl.
The present example wears a combination finish described as semi-smooth and rustic — a treatment in which portions of the briar are left polished to display the natural surface while other areas are rusticated, carved or textured to create deliberate contrast. This mixed finish is a common strategy in serial production, lending visual interest while accommodating briar blocks whose grain varies across the stummel.
The pipe is built around a 9mm filter system, the bore standard popularised in German-speaking and continental European markets, where activated-charcoal filter cartridges of that diameter became the dominant smoking convention in the modern era. A 9mm-capable shank identifies the pipe firmly as a product of that tradition and of contemporary manufacture.
Dating rests on the stampings themselves. The INFINITY name identifies the production line, and 598 is a shape or model number within the maker's catalogue; neither functions as a factory date code, and Aldo Morelli pipes carry no year-specific marking system. The 9mm filter architecture and catalogue-style nomenclature together place the piece within the modern filter-pipe era, and the honest bracket for this example is therefore late twentieth to early twenty-first century.
2023-04-11
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-11.
2023-04-21
Sold through Etsy for USD 49. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
6 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 'modern era, late 20th to early 2' -> 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 49sold 2023-04-21 · 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 20 sales of Aldo Morelli between 2019–2026 — median $49, most falling between $30 and $65.
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, 2023-04-11. 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. 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.