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12 photographsArchive Record FUH-NDNK-YYHG-U
Gold Fire Selected Briar Smooth Bent Billiard Estate Pipe with Vulcanite Saddle Stem and Fishtail Bit
undetermined
Dating: Owner-stated12 photographs
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.
Attribute checklist
Rim cleaned (no wood removed)
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Refinished
No
Faridunhill standing declaration
Chamber reamed
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
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.
The entry
GOLD FIRE / SELECTED BRIAR is stamped on the shank of this pipe, with the number 428. It is a Gold Fire bent billiard in a smooth finish, with a vulcanite saddle stem and a fishtail bit, and it has no filter.
THE MARKS - GOLD FIRE / SELECTED BRIAR stamped on the shank - 428 stamped on the shank - A small logo on the stem
A billiard has a straight-sided bowl and a shank that meets it at a right angle; on this pipe the stem is bent, which brings the bit down toward the smoker. The saddle stem is vulcanite, and the bit ends in a fishtail that spreads the draw across the tongue. There is no filter. The bowl is smooth; please see the photographs for the grain.
Condition: pre-smoked, in very good condition. Please see the photographs.
THE MEASUREMENTS - Length: 144 mm (5.67 in) - Bowl height: 48 mm (1.89 in) - Bowl width: 38 mm (1.50 in) - Chamber diameter: 20 mm (0.79 in) - Chamber depth: 40 mm (1.57 in) - Weight: 48 g (1.69 oz)
The log
2026-11-09
Logged from the Faridunhill shop - photographed and listed on faridunhill.com, 2026-11-09.
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
What this record still doesn't carry
- The attribute checklist is open on: original stem, stem replaced or re-cut, topped, smoked. These are facts, not opinions — anyone holding this pipe can close them.
- The stampings and attribution here are as reported with the piece. A second, independent source — a catalogue page, a dated advertisement, a hallmarked sibling — is what would raise this record.
- No shape number recorded — the maker's own catalogue designation for this form is still open.
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.
The witness
Faridunhill shop post, 2026-11-09. 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. 12 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.
Handle FUH-NDNK-YYHG-UBrand Gold FireDating Owner-stated