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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-QY2T-T3VU-N
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 a bent brandy stamped TIGRE, finished smooth and drilled to accept a 9mm filter. It enters the archive as an estate piece, documented here for its form and its filter system rather than for any single maker's celebrity.
The brandy is among the most recognisable of the classic pipe shapes, its bowl modelled on the snifter glass from which it takes its name: broad through the base, tapering gently as it rises toward the rim. In its bent configuration, as here, the shank and stem curve downward so that the pipe hangs comfortably, shifting weight toward the jaw and lowering the bowl in the smoker's field of view. The smooth finish leaves the surface of the stummel unbroken by carving or blast, presenting the material plainly.
The defining technical feature of this example is its 9mm filter chamber. The 9mm system — a widened bore in the shank sized to hold a disposable filter, most commonly activated charcoal in a paper sleeve — is a hallmark of Continental European pipe making, where it became the dominant convention in Germany and neighbouring markets from the middle of the twentieth century onward. Its presence signals a pipe built to that Continental pattern and, as a dating aid, places the piece broadly within the postwar to contemporary period rather than earlier.
The TIGRE stamp is the sole marking documented for this pipe, and no widely published date-coding system attaches to it; the era bracket therefore rests on the filter convention alone, honestly stated as mid-twentieth century to contemporary. The pipe stands in the encyclopedia as a clear, typical illustration of the filtered bent brandy in the European style.
2022-12-15
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-15.
2023-02-27
Sold through Etsy for USD 42. 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-20th century to contemporary' -> undetermined).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 42sold 2023-02-27 · 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, 2022-12-15. 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. 7 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.