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15 photographsArchive Record FUH-QG8H-33X6-D
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.
No dating evidence has been recorded on this example yet.
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
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 is a Brebbia Junior 773 from Italy: a lovat in a red sandblast finish, with an acrylic saddle stem and a fishtail bit. It is pre-smoked and in very good condition. A red leather bag and a tobacco pouch come with it.
THE MAKER The Brebbia story starts in 1947, when Enea Buzzi and Achille Savinelli opened a joint firm at Bosco Grosso di Brebbia, near Varese. In those first years the pipes made there were sold under the Savinelli name. In 1953 the two men went separate ways: Savinelli built his own works, and Buzzi kept the Brebbia factory. His new mark was MPB, for Manifattura Pipe Brebbia (1953 by one account; another account dates the formal buyout to 22 June 1956). In 1968 the MPB mark gave way to a simple diamond with a gold outline, and from then on the pipes were called just Brebbia. In the 1990s Enea's son, Luciano Buzzi, managed the firm.
THE MARKS - brebbia, in lower-case script (on the shank) - JUNIOR (under the brebbia script) - 773 (on the shank) - ITALY (on the shank, read only in part in the photographs) - a gold-outlined diamond (on the stem)
THE SHAPE AND THE STEM A lovat has a straight bowl, a long round shank and a saddle stem. On this pipe the chamber is round. On this stem the saddle step sits near the shank end, and the bit is a wide, flat fishtail.
THE FINISH The sandblast covers the bowl, the rim and the shank. Please see the photographs for the finish and the rim.
DATING The gold-outlined diamond on the stem is the Brebbia mark from 1968 on, and it is still used today; this window is well documented. So this pipe was made in 1968 or later. No closer year is known.
WHAT COMES WITH IT - a red leather bag for one pipe, with a zip (it needs a small fix; everything works; it is sold as it is) - a 2 oz tobacco pouch
THE MEASUREMENTS - Length: 135 mm (5.31 in) - Bowl height: 48 mm (1.89 in) - Bowl width: 35 mm (1.38 in) - Chamber diameter: 20 mm (0.79 in) - Chamber depth: 41 mm (1.61 in) - Weight: 39 g (1.38 oz)
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. 15 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.