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1 photographsArchive Record FUH-MTVG-KYK3-U
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 Peterson Tylone in the straight billiard form, shape number 6, finished smooth and fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. It entered the archive as an Irish estate piece, meaning it saw service with a previous owner before being documented here. Alongside the System pipes, the firm has always produced conventional lines in classic shapes, of which the Tylone is one, and the fishtail mouthpiece on this example marks it as such: the fishtail is Peterson's standard flattened bit, offered as the orthodox alternative to the house's distinctive P-Lip, which directs smoke upward through an aperture in the top of the button. The straight billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe-making canon — a cylindrical bowl of roughly equal height and shank length, set at right angles to a straight shank and stem. Its proportions are the yardstick against which most other classic shapes are described, and nearly every maker of consequence, Peterson included, has kept a billiard in the catalogue. The smooth finish presents the grain of the stummel without rustication or sandblasting. Dating rests on the reported stampings — the Tylone line name and the shape number 6 — together with the owner's account of the pipe as an Irish estate piece. Peterson did not employ a factory date code; students of the marque instead date examples by the evolution of the country-of-origin stamps, logo styles, and, where present, silver hallmarks. Absent such corroborating detail in this record, the era remains honestly undetermined, resting on owner attribution alone.
2023-07-29
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-29.
2023-08-06
Sold through Etsy for USD 79. 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 79sold 2023-08-06 · 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 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, 2023-07-29. 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. 1 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.