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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-P8RR-CRTQ-3
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 an Oldenkott pipe of the RUBI line, a German estate piece cut as a slightly bent apple with a smooth finish and fitted for the 9mm filter system. The apple is among the most enduring of classic shapes: a rounded, fully radiused bowl, softer and more spherical than the billiard from which it descends, here given a gentle bend that drops the bowl slightly below the line of the shank and lends the pipe a relaxed sit in the hand. The smooth finish leaves the surface of the stummel unbroken, presenting the material plainly rather than through rustication or blast.
Oldenkott is one of the venerable names of the German tobacco trade, a house whose history reaches back centuries on the Lower Rhine and whose pipes served the domestic German market alongside its tobacco business. That market context is legible in the pipe itself: the 9mm filter chamber bored into the shank is the defining convention of German-market pipes, a system in which a disposable charcoal or paper filter seats between tenon and shank to condition the smoke. German makers adopted the 9mm bore as a near-universal standard from the middle of the twentieth century, and its presence here is the principal dating evidence available for this example.
Dating an Oldenkott therefore proceeds by market logic rather than by factory date codes, which the brand did not employ in the manner of houses such as Dunhill. The RUBI line stamping identifies the series within the maker's range, and the 9mm system anchors the pipe to the period after that standard took hold in Germany. On that basis the example is bracketed honestly to the second half of the twentieth century or later, with the precise year left undetermined pending further documentary evidence.
2022-10-27
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-27.
2022-12-01
Sold through Etsy for USD 48. 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 'second half of the 20th century ' -> 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 48sold 2022-12-01 · 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, 2022-10-27. 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.