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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-M9J5-UENU-2
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 bent hexagon-form pipe attributed to Oldenkott of Germany, carried in the archive under the designation 'Excellent Super Grain' as given by its owner. The pipe presents a smooth finish over a six-sided, paneled bowl — the defining trait of the hexagon shape, in which the stummel is faceted into flat planes rather than turned to a continuous round profile. Paneled shapes of this kind demand disciplined work at the shaping wheel, since each facet must meet its neighbours at a clean, consistent edge, and the geometry leaves the carver little room to correct a stray cut. The bent configuration drops the shank and stem below the bowl line, settling the weight of the pipe toward the hand and jaw.
The pipe is fitted for the 9mm filter system, the disposable charcoal-filter format that German makers standardised in the twentieth century and that remains a hallmark of pipes built for the German and broader Continental market. Its presence here is consistent with the pipe's stated German origin, where filtered smoking has long been the domestic norm.
Oldenkott is one of the venerable names of the German tobacco trade, a house whose mark appears on pipes produced for the German market alongside its tobacco interests. The 'Super Grain' styling on such pieces served as a grain-oriented finish designation within the range.
Dating rests on the owner's attribution and on the pipe's construction vocabulary rather than on any factory date code, as German market pipes of this kind were not serially dated. The 9mm system and the smooth paneled styling place it comfortably within twentieth-century German production, and the record accordingly carries an undetermined bracket within that century, pending documentary evidence such as a legible stamping transcription or catalogue correspondence.
2022-10-29
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-29.
2023-03-17
Sold through Etsy for USD 39. 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 '20th century).
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 2023-03-17 · 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, 2022-10-29. 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.