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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-Q2BC-CJ4T-W
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 an English estate pipe from GBD, executed in the marque's Super Grain line as a smooth-finished bent billiard. The bent billiard is one of the most enduring forms in the pipemaker's repertoire: a cylindrical bowl of classical billiard proportions joined to a shank and stem that curve downward, shifting the pipe's weight closer to the jaw and lending the profile a relaxed, sculptural line. In a smooth finish, the form serves as an open canvas for the 's natural figure, which is precisely the point of the Super Grain designation — a line GBD reserved for stummels whose grain merited display without sandblasting or rustication. GBD itself occupies a significant place in pipe history. The Super Grain line sat among the better-known tiers of that English production and remains one of the names most readily associated with the marque. Dating a GBD depends chiefly on reading its nomenclature: the style of the oval GBD stamp, the wording of the country-of-manufacture line, the brass or plastic rondelle inset in the stem, and the shape number all shift across the firm's history, particularly around the corporate consolidations of the later twentieth century. GBD did not employ a factory date code in the manner of Dunhill, so any single example is bracketed rather than pinned to a year. On the strength of the owner's identification of this piece as English-made Super Grain production, the honest placement is mid-to-late twentieth century, with the era otherwise undetermined pending closer study of the stampings themselves.
2024-04-11
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-04-11.
2024-04-15
Sold through Etsy for USD 39. 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 'mid-to-late 20th century; 1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 39sold 2024-04-15 · 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 sample this sits in: Faridunhill has recorded 46 sales of GBD between 2016–2026 — median $40, most falling between $28 and $65.
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, 2024-04-11. 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. 9 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.