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14 photographsArchive Record FUH-NXYP-NQNB-V
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.
| Country |
| Germany |
No dating evidence has been recorded on this example yet.
Owner-stated. Facts as reported with the piece; not yet independently corroborated.Attribution is our documented expert opinion with its evidence — never a certification.
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.
DENICOTEA, YACHT, 734 L - a long, black sandblasted Dublin with an important qualification: the meerschaum bowl insert has been removed and is missing. This pipe is offered as pictured, without a replacement insert. It is pre-smoked.
Denicotea began in Cologne in 1932, founded by Willy Heineberg. Its history belongs to the wider smoking-accessory trade as well as to pipes: filters, filter inserts and cigarette holders formed part of the business. After the Second World War the company moved to Bergisch Gladbach. The Denicotea name is especially associated with silica-gel filters. That company history provides the background to the name; it does not establish the manufacturing year or workshop of this Yacht 734 L.
THE MARKS - DENICOTEA stamped on the shank - YACHT / 734 L stamped on the shank
The Dublin bowl widens toward the rim, while the straight shank and long tapered stem give the pipe an extended profile. The black sandblast produces a textured surface across the bowl and shank. At 165 mm long and 23 g in its present configuration, it is light for its length.
The stem is vulcanite, tapered toward a fishtail bit, and is described as taking a 9 mm filter. The filter fitting and the missing bowl insert are separate features; the presence of one does not replace the other.
Condition: Pre-smoked, described as in good condition apart from the missing meerschaum bowl insert. The photographs show the open bowl and its present fittings. No replacement insert is included, and no claim is made that a particular replacement will fit or that the pipe is ready to smoke without one. The chamber measurements below describe the opening as it is now, with the insert absent.
THE MEASUREMENTS - Length: 165 mm (6.50 in) - Bowl height: 47 mm (1.85 in) - Bowl width: 34 mm (1.34 in) - Chamber diameter: 25 mm (0.98 in) - Chamber depth: 40 mm (1.57 in) - Weight: 23 g (0.81 oz)
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.
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.
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. 14 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.