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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-MK6A-FY8W-Y
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 reference example is a Peterson Christmas 2022 Copper Army pipe in the maker's shape 103, an estate piece of Irish origin. The army mount, employed here, is a construction in which the shank is reinforced with a metal band and the stem seats into the mortise on a push-fit tapered tenon rather than a conventional flush tenon. The design traces its popular association to soldiers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who valued a stem that could be pulled and re-seated in the field without risk of cracking the shank. In the Christmas 2022 edition Peterson dressed this mount in copper — hence the line's Copper Army name — a departure from the nickel and sterling bands more commonly seen on the firm's army-mounted pipes. Peterson's Christmas pipe is an annual tradition, with each year's release given a distinct finish and mount treatment and produced only for that season. This practice makes dating unusually straightforward: the line name itself fixes the year of manufacture, and this example accordingly belongs to 2022. The 103 designation refers to Peterson's factory shape chart, the numbering system by which the firm has catalogued its bowl and shank profiles across generations of production. As an estate pipe, it has seen prior use, a fact entered in the attribute record. Within the Faridunhill archive it stands as a clean illustration of a modern, precisely datable annual edition from a major Irish house, and of the army mount tradition that Peterson has carried forward for well over a century.
2023-09-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-09-22.
2023-09-27
Sold through eBay for USD 110. 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).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 110sold 2023-09-27 · 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, 2023-09-22. 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.