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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-R5TB-PA84-P
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
No
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 straight briar pipe in the apple shape, recorded under the Junior name and attributed to Italian manufacture. The bowl is finished smooth, allowing the natural grain of the briar to serve as the principal visual feature, and the pipe follows a fully straight configuration from bowl to bit, with the airway running level through the shank into the stem. The apple is one of the foundational shapes of the pipe-making canon: a rounded, slightly compressed bowl of gently convex profile, softer and more spherical than the billiard from which the classical shape chart descends. Its proportions typically place the bowl height and width in near balance, producing a compact, comfortable form that has been a staple of workshops in every major pipe-making country. Italy in particular has long been a centre of volume briar production, drawing on Mediterranean erica arborea burls harvested and cured in the regions around Liguria, Calabria, and Sicily, and Italian workshops have historically issued great numbers of smooth-finished classical shapes under a wide range of house names and secondary marks. The Junior stamp belongs to this broad tradition of Italian export and workshop marking, applied to briar pipes of conventional pattern rather than to a single documented factory line with an established published history. Dating rests entirely on what the record supplies. No nomenclature, hallmark, date code, or accompanying documentation is preserved with this example, and marks of this kind were in any case rarely tied to systematic factory dating conventions of the sort used by houses such as Dunhill.
2023-02-27
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-27.
2023-04-29
Sold through Etsy for USD 24. 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 24sold 2023-04-29 · 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 25 sales of Junior between 2016–2025 — median $24, most falling between $11 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, 2023-02-27. 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.