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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-MCUD-2NDE-8
2022
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 record documents a Peterson pipe from the maker's Christmas 2022 annual series, executed in a rusticated finish, built with an army mount, and carried in the firm's shape 85. It entered the archive as an Irish estate pipe. The Christmas series is issued each year as a themed edition drawn from the standard shape chart, typically dressed in a seasonal finish and mount treatment particular to that year's run. Because the series carries its year in its very name, such pipes are self-dating in a way few production pipes are. The army mount deserves note as a construction rather than a decoration. In this arrangement the stem seats into the shank by friction rather than by a conventional mortise-and-tenon joint, the shank end characteristically reinforced against splitting. The design traces to field use, where a pipe could be dismantled while still warm and stowed compactly — a practical heritage Peterson has long kept alive across its catalogue. The rusticated finish, a deliberately carved and textured surface, gives the work a tactile, matte character and has been a staple Peterson treatment for generations. Shape 85 belongs to Peterson's numbered shape chart, the system by which the house has catalogued its bowl and shank geometries across many decades of production. Taken together — the named annual line, the army-mount construction, and the numbered shape — the piece is placed firmly and without ambiguity in the year 2022, a modern chapter in Peterson's long Dublin lineage.
2023-07-16
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-16.
2023-07-25
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 (1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (2 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 2023-07-25 · 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, 2023-07-16. 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. 10 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.