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21 photographsArchive Record FUH-Q2VW-XURM-T
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.
Owner-stated. Facts as reported with the piece; not yet independently corroborated.Attribution is our documented expert opinion with its evidence — never a certification.
Rim cleaned (no wood removed)
Yes
Faridunhill standing declaration
Refinished
No
Faridunhill standing declaration
Chamber reamed
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.
The Peterson System Standard 307 is a bent System pipe with a deep bowl, a nickel military mount and a vulcanite P-lip stem. This one is pre-smoked, in very good condition, and it comes with its original Peterson sleeve.
THE MAKER Kapp & Peterson of Dublin are known for the System pipe, made to keep moisture away from the mouth. Charles Peterson's pipe patent was granted in 1890, and the System pipe uses a reservoir in the shank and a tapering mouthpiece for exactly this purpose. A Dublin court case of 1894 describes the system in these terms. The System line has been made since 1896, and shape 307, the Extra-Large Billiard, has been in it from the start to the present day.
THE MARKS The shank is stamped PETERSON'S SYSTEM STANDARD, with 307 and "Made in the Republic of Ireland". The nickel mount carries K&P and PETERSON'S with the Peterson hallmark-style marks. These marks give no year. The date comes from the country stamp: "Republic of Ireland" was used from 1949, so this pipe is from 1949 or later.
SHAPE AND STEM The bowl is deep and sturdy, set on the reservoir shank, and the nickel military mount leads into a vulcanite stem with a clean bend and a P-lip bit. There is no filter.
FINISH AND GRAIN The briar is smooth, in a natural honey-brown to red-brown stain, with busy bird's-eye and cross grain over the bowl.
CONDITION Pre-smoked, in very good condition. The original Peterson sleeve is included: a red pouch with the Peterson name in gold script.
THE MEASUREMENTS Length 170 mm (6.69 in); bowl height 54 mm (2.13 in); bowl width 40 mm (1.57 in); chamber diameter 20 mm (0.79 in); chamber depth 42 mm (1.65 in); weight 64 g (2.26 oz).
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2026-11-09
Logged from the Faridunhill shop - photographed and listed on faridunhill.com, 2026-11-09.
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
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.
Faridunhill shop post, 2026-11-09. 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. 21 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.