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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-PXQ6-XM6K-B
2022
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 documents a Peterson pipe from the Halloween 2022 series, executed in a sandblasted finish on the house shape numbered 102 and fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. The fishtail bit is the conventional open-slot orifice, distinguishing this example from Peterson's other signature option, the patented P-Lip, and it delivers the smoke straight across the tongue in the standard manner familiar to most pipe smokers. The sandblast treatment exposes the grain structure of the stummel in relief, a finish Peterson has long applied across many of its lines to give a tactile, rusticated-adjacent surface at a step below smooth-finished grades. Alongside its permanent catalogue, the firm issues annual themed editions, and the Halloween series belongs to this seasonal programme: each year's release is identified by the holiday name and the year itself, typically presented in dark or dramatic finishes suited to the theme. The shape number 102 places this pipe within Peterson's long-standing numbered shape chart, the system by which the factory has catalogued its bowl and stem geometries for generations, allowing a given profile to be reproduced consistently across finishes and lines. Dating this example requires no interpretation of hallmarks or stamping styles, because the edition name performs the work directly: a pipe issued as part of the Halloween 2022 series is by definition a product of that year's run. The era bracket is therefore fixed at 2022, making this one of the more precisely datable entries in the archive — a useful contrast to older marques whose dating depends on indirect evidence such as logo evolution or nomenclature changes.
2023-09-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-09-22.
2023-09-23
Sold through eBay for USD 85. 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 (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 85sold 2023-09-23 · 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, 2023-09-22. 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.