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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-PD8P-4RHN-K
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 Peterson Deluxe in shape 260, a straight pipe executed in a smooth finish and fitted with the maker's signature P-lip mouthpiece. The P-lip is the feature most closely identified with the house: a graduated bit in which the smoke channel exits through a small aperture on the upper surface of the button rather than through a conventional slot, directing the smoke toward the roof of the mouth. Charles Peterson patented this design in the late nineteenth century as a companion to his moisture-trapping System construction, and it has remained a defining characteristic of the Dublin firm's output ever since. The 260 is one of the numbered shapes within the Peterson catalogue, here presented in a straight configuration — a relatively upright stance compared with the bent System shapes for which the firm is perhaps better known. Dating Peterson pipes is an exercise in reading the details of nomenclature and metalwork. The style of the 'Peterson's' script, the wording of the country-of-origin stamp — which shifted through 'Made in Ireland', 'Irish Free State', 'Eire', and 'Republic of Ireland' across the twentieth century — and, on silver-mounted examples, the Dublin hallmark date letters together allow specialists to place a pipe within a production window. For this example, the record rests on the owner's identification of brand, line, shape, and mouthpiece type, and the era is therefore entered in the archive as undetermined pending closer study of its stampings.
2023-04-05
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-05.
2023-04-09
Sold through eBay for USD 135. 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).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 135sold 2023-04-09 · 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, 2023-04-05. 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. 7 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.