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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-QTTM-WAX5-N
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 archive entry documents a smooth-finished, straight paneled billiard carrying the RINAS name together with the Honor line designation. The pipe entered the record as an estate piece, meaning it passed through prior ownership before being catalogued here as a reference example. The paneled billiard is one of the most instructive variations on the classic billiard form. Where the standard billiard presents a cylindrical bowl with rounded walls, the paneled version replaces those curves with a series of flat facets cut around the bowl's circumference. The result preserves the billiard's upright proportions and workmanlike balance while introducing crisp geometry and defined edges — a treatment that demands careful layout from the maker, since each panel must be cut evenly and meet its neighbours at consistent angles. The straight configuration, with shank and stem running in a single uninterrupted line from bowl to bit, is the most traditional presentation of the shape and keeps the smoke channel direct and easy to maintain. The smooth finish is the plainest and most revealing treatment available to a pipe maker: rather than concealing the surface under sandblasting or rustication, it leaves the material fully exposed to view, which is why smooth pipes have historically been used to display a maker's best stock. Identification of this example rests on its nomenclature — the RINAS marque paired with the Honor designation — which together anchor the pipe within that maker's catalogue of named lines.
2022-11-16
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-16.
2022-11-19
Sold through Etsy for USD 29. 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 (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 29sold 2022-11-19 · 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 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, 2022-11-16. 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. 6 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.