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3 photographsArchive Record FUH-MNPP-CQBC-R
Republic of Ireland era (1949 onward)
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 Kapet in shape 440, an estate pipe stamped Republic of Ireland and fitted with the firm's signature P-Lip mouthpiece. The Kapet name is one of several sub-brands Peterson used to bring its designs to a broader smoking public, and examples of the line circulate widely, making it a useful benchmark for studying the firm's standard production. The defining functional feature recorded here is the P-Lip mouthpiece, Peterson's patented bit design in which the smoke exits through a hole on the upper surface of the button rather than through a conventional slot. The design was intended to direct smoke toward the roof of the mouth, reducing tongue contact and, by the maker's account, delivering a cooler smoke. The P-Lip remains one of the most recognisable proprietary mouthpieces in pipe history and is a hallmark of Peterson production across many of its lines. The 440 designation places the pipe within Peterson's numbered shape chart, the system by which the firm has catalogued its bowl and stem configurations for generations. Dating rests principally on the country-of-manufacture stamp. That stamp therefore establishes a firm earliest boundary, though Peterson used no year-specific factory date code, so the marking cannot narrow production to a single decade on its own.
2023-05-20
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-05-20.
2023-06-25
Sold through eBay for USD 90. 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 (3 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 90sold 2023-06-25 · 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, 2023-05-20. 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. 3 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.