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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-PQ8P-GPU8-H
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 record documents an English estate pipe stamped Charatan's Make London England, carrying the Special grade designation together with the numeral 2, which in Charatan practice served as a shape identifier within the catalogue. The pipe stands in the archive as a reference example of the Special line as it left the London workshop. Charatan occupies a foundational place in English pipe history. The phrase 'Charatan's Make' — as opposed to a simple brand name — was the company's deliberate assertion of that in-house manufacture, and it remained the core of the firm's nomenclature across generations of ownership. Within the Charatan hierarchy, grade names such as Special denoted the workshop's own assessment of the stummel, sitting within a graded ladder that ran from workaday finishes to the celebrated top-tier hand-cut pieces that made the firm's reputation among twentieth-century smokers. Dating a Charatan is a matter of reading stamping style rather than consulting a code, because the house — unlike some contemporaries — used no factory date-coding system. On the evidence preserved here — the 'Charatan's Make London England' stamp with the Special grade and shape numeral 2 — the piece can be placed honestly only within the broad span of twentieth-century London production, and the archive records it under that undetermined bracket rather than assigning a narrower date the stampings cannot support.
2023-04-10
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-10.
2023-04-10
Sold through eBay for USD 149. 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, undetermined' -> undetermined; 2 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 149sold 2023-04-10 · 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 51 sales of Charatan between 2016–2025 — median $109, most falling between $39 and $185.
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, 2023-04-10. 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.