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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-MYMX-YANH-C
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 documents a bent apple from Oldenkott's Cherry Hill line, a German production pipe finished smooth and fitted with a shank bored to accept the 9mm filter. The apple is one of the classic rounded bowl forms of the pipe-shape canon: a squat, globular chamber wall softer and fuller in profile than the billiard, here paired with a bent stem that drops the bowl below the line of the mouthpiece and settles the pipe comfortably in the hand or jaw. The smooth finish leaves the surface polished rather than carved or blasted, presenting the material's natural figure without texture work.
Oldenkott is a name from the German tobacco trade with roots reaching back centuries, and pipes carrying the mark belong to the broad tradition of German factory pipe-making produced for a domestic market. The 9mm filter system recorded here is itself a strong marker of that origin: German makers standardised on the 9mm charcoal filter through the twentieth century, and a filter-bored shank of this gauge is one of the most reliable indicators that a pipe was made for, or within, the German-speaking market. The Cherry Hill designation identifies the line within the Oldenkott catalogue.
Dating rests on the owner's attribution rather than on documented factory marks, and Oldenkott production lines do not carry a date-coding system that would fix a year of manufacture. The 9mm filter convention and the estate character of the piece place it within twentieth-century German production, but no narrower bracket can be responsibly assigned. The record therefore stands with an honest, undetermined twentieth-century dating, anchored by the brand, line, shape, and filter system as stated.
2022-12-16
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-16.
2023-03-12
Sold through Etsy for USD 42. 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 (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 42sold 2023-03-12 · 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, 2022-12-16. 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. 6 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.