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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-NTWQ-TBKK-F
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 is a Lyst System pipe of Danish origin, executed in the Rhodesian shape and carrying the factory shape number 32. Its defining mechanical feature is a removable bowl: the bowl unit separates from the underlying stummel assembly, a construction principle long favoured in system pipes because it permits thorough cleaning of the airway and helps manage moisture and heat during smoking. Pipes built on this principle occupy a distinct engineering tradition within European factory pipe-making, standing apart from conventional one-piece stummels in both maintenance routine and smoking mechanics.
The Rhodesian shape itself belongs to the bulldog family and is among the most recognisable classic forms in the catalogue of traditional pipe shapes. It is characterised by a squat, rounded bowl — typically carrying one or two incised bead lines around its widest circumference — married to a shank and stem that give the whole a compact, muscular profile. Where the classic bulldog pairs its beaded bowl with a diamond shank, the Rhodesian is conventionally distinguished by a round shank, lending the form a softer, more flowing line. The shape number 32 identifies this specific rendering within the Lyst factory range.
Lyst is one of the Danish factory marques, and Denmark's pipe industry in the twentieth century encompassed both celebrated artisan workshops and a substantial factory sector producing shape-numbered lines for domestic and export markets. This pipe entered the record through the Danish estate trade, the channel through which most examples of such factory production now circulate.
Dating rests on limited evidence. Danish factory brands of this type did not generally employ systematic date codes, so precise year attribution is rarely possible; dating instead depends on stamping styles, catalogue comparison, and construction details. On the evidence available for this example, the honest conclusion is a broad bracket: Danish production of the twentieth century, era otherwise undetermined.
2022-10-10
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-10.
2023-03-29
Sold through Etsy for USD 79. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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, undetermined' -> undetermined).
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 2023-03-29 · 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 6 sales of Lyst between 2019–2024 — median $72, most falling between $63 and $79.
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, 2022-10-10. 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.