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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-NPW3-AGYE-8
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
No
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 System pipe in the Smooth Ebony finish, carrying shape number 307 and fitted with the marque's signature P-lip mouthpiece. The Ebony designation within Peterson's catalogue denotes a deep black smooth finish applied over polished , giving the System family a formal, uniform appearance distinct from the house's rustic and sandblasted treatments. The firm's reputation rests substantially on two patented innovations that this pipe embodies as a category. The first is the System itself: an engineering approach in which the shank and mount are configured to create a moisture reservoir below the airway, drawing condensate away from the smoke path. The second is the P-lip, or Peterson Lip, mouthpiece — a graduated-bore bit with the smoke hole opening upward toward the roof of the mouth rather than directly onto the tongue, a design intended to cool the draw and reduce bite. The 307 is one of the numbered bent shapes within the System range, the family of curved forms with which the marque is most closely associated. Dating a Peterson presents a particular challenge for the archivist: the factory has never used a systematic date code on its stamping. Attribution to an era therefore normally proceeds from the style and wording of the shank stamps, the form of the country-of-manufacture mark, and — where a sterling band is present — Dublin hallmarks, which can fix a year of assay precisely. The present record preserves the owner's identification of brand, line, finish, shape number, and Irish origin; on that documentation alone, the era of manufacture is honestly bracketed as undetermined.
2022-12-09
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-09.
2023-01-08
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).
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 2023-01-08 · 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, 2022-12-09. 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. 8 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.