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21 photographsArchive Record FUH-RH2U-93JY-5
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
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 Savinelli Punto Oro 803 EX is the Lumberman layout in Extraordinaire size: a cylindrical billiard-style bowl on an elongated oval shank, finished smooth in a reddish-brown stain that lets the grain show. This one is pre-smoked, in very good condition, and it will come with its original Savinelli Punto Oro sleeve.
THE MAKER Savinelli began as a shop, not a factory. In 1876 Achille Savinelli Sr. opened a tobacco shop in Milan, and in 1890 his son Carlo took it over and ran it for about fifty years. Pipe making followed in 1948, when Achille Jr. started Savinelli pipe production in the Varese region; the sources differ on his partners (one names Amleto Pome and Mario Vettoruzzo, another an association with Enea Buzzi at Brebbia), and both accounts are kept. In 1953 Savinelli split from Buzzi, whose Brebbia pipes continue as their own brand, and the company built its own factory at Molina di Barasso. Production has stayed in Italy ever since, and the fourth generation, Giancarlo Savinelli, now runs the house.
THE MARKS - SAVINELLI over PUNTO ORO, stamped - Shield logo, 803 EX, ITALY, stamped
The line name and the size code tell the story of the pipe. Punto Oro (Gold Dot) is a Savinelli line, and Savinelli's own staff say they began producing it in the 1950s. The number 803 is the Lumberman shape (a dealer source names the 803 KS as a Lumberman too), and the suffix EX stands for Extraordinaire, a very large size in Savinelli's 2015 catalogue.
DATING The three-digit shape number means this is not from the early four-digit era (Savinelli moved to three digits during the 1970s). The Punto Oro line itself runs from the 1950s to today and the ITALY stamp only confirms production since 1948, so none of these marks narrows the age further. No year is claimed here.
THE SHAPE AND THE FINISH The bowl has a clean, cylindrical wall, and the shank is long and oval rather than round. The smooth surface is stained a warm reddish brown, and the photographs show the grain. The stem is black. The last photographs show a soft pouch printed LA SAVINELLI punto oro.
Condition: pre-smoked, in very good condition.
THE MEASUREMENTS - Length: 165 mm (6.50 in) - Bowl height: 56 mm (2.20 in) - Bowl width: 43 mm (1.69 in) - Chamber diameter: 22 mm (0.87 in) - Chamber depth: 49 mm (1.93 in) - Weight: 63 g (2.22 oz)
2026-11-09
Logged from the Faridunhill shop - photographed and listed on faridunhill.com, 2026-11-09.
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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.