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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-PGV9-9VBJ-7
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 smooth-finished briar bulldog carrying the shape number 503, produced under the Irish Estates "K" Briar name and attributed to Peterson. The bulldog is one of the most recognisable forms in the pipe-making canon: a diamond-profiled shank meeting a bowl whose upper and lower cones converge at a pronounced waist, traditionally accented by one or two incised rings cut around the bowl's circumference. The geometry gives the shape both visual tension and practical resilience, and it has remained a staple of factory catalogues for well over a century. Names such as Irish Estates belong to this stratum of production, in which pipes made in the Peterson workshops were finished and stamped under alternate nomenclature, often for particular markets or price tiers. Such lines share the factory's shape vocabulary — here expressed in the numbered 503 bulldog — while carrying their own distinct branding. Dating pipes of this class relies on the character of the stampings and on the documented lifespan of the line itself, since these secondary marques were not given factory date codes; where Peterson pipes carry hallmarked sterling mounts, the assay marks permit precise dating, but a line-stamped briar such as this is placed instead by the period during which the marque appeared in trade catalogues and distribution. On that basis the piece is assigned broadly to Peterson's twentieth-century output, and the record's era bracket is left deliberately wide in keeping with the evidence at hand.
2023-11-18
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-11-18.
2023-11-28
Sold through eBay for USD 75. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
6 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 'twentieth century, undetermined' -> undetermined; 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 75sold 2023-11-28 · 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 782 sales of Irish Estates "K" Briar between 2017–2026 — median $100, most falling between $62 and $148.
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, 2023-11-18. 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. 10 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.