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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-P9WN-4Q5E-8
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 French estate pipe of the Midway line, attributed to Jeantet and carved in briar as a smooth bent egg fitted for a 9mm filter. The egg is one of the classic ovoid bowl forms of the pipe repertoire: a chamber whose walls swell gently outward before tapering toward the rim, here paired with a bent shank-and-stem arrangement that lowers the bowl in the hand and directs the smoke channel through a curved profile. The 9mm filter bore identifies the pipe with the continental European filter tradition, in which a replaceable charcoal or paper cartridge sits within an enlarged tenon-and-mortise passage between shank and stem.
Jeantet belongs to the historic pipe-making centre of Saint-Claude in the French Jura, the town widely regarded as the cradle of industrial briar pipe manufacture from the mid-nineteenth century onward. The house was among the significant Saint-Claude producers, turning out large volumes of factory pipes under its own name and under numerous sub-brands and export lines. Midway, marked here alongside the assurance 'Real Briar,' represents such a line: a designation intended to certify genuine briar construction at a time when pressed and composite bowls also circulated in the market. The additional Fumata marking functions as a line or finish designation within the same production family.
Dating pipes of this kind rests on the stampings and on general knowledge of the maker's output rather than on any factory date code, since French factory houses of this type did not employ serialised dating systems. The Midway and Real Briar nomenclature, together with the 9mm filter configuration, situates the piece within twentieth-century French factory production, and the archive accordingly records its era as twentieth century, otherwise undetermined. The pipe stands in the encyclopedia as a representative document of Saint-Claude's mass-market briar tradition and of the filtered bent egg as a continental form.
2023-03-24
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-24.
2023-06-08
Sold through Etsy for USD 29. 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 (era '20th century).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 29sold 2023-06-08 · 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 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, 2023-03-24. 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.