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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-RMHU-C3RK-T
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 documents a French estate pipe attributed to the Sunrise line of Chapuis-Comoy, presented as shape 3503, a Rhodesian executed in churchwarden configuration. The pairing is a notable one: the Rhodesian is fundamentally a compact, sturdy shape, while the churchwarden treatment stretches the composition into a long, slender profile, producing a hybrid form that keeps the character of the bowl while dramatically extending the reach of the stem. Chapuis-Comoy & Cie belongs to the historic pipe-making centre of Saint-Claude in the French Jura, the town long celebrated as the cradle of industrial pipe production. The firm is bound to the celebrated Comoy family of pipe makers, whose name spans both French and English pipe history, and it is best known today as the house behind the Chacom marque. The Rhodesian shape is traditionally defined by a rounded, squat bowl crowned with a beaded or grooved cap ring dividing the upper and lower portions of the bowl. Here that classic form serves as the anchor for the churchwarden's greatly elongated stem, a style whose origins reach back centuries to long-stemmed clay pipes and which cools the smoke over its extended draw. Dating rests on the maker attribution and the shape number, recorded from the owner's description. The era of this example therefore remains an honest bracket spanning the twentieth to twenty-first century, undetermined more precisely, with the attribution held at the owner-stated tier of the archive.
2022-11-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-21.
2022-12-18
Sold through eBay for USD 45. 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 '20th to 21st century, undetermin' -> undetermined; 1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (2 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 45sold 2022-12-18 · eBay
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 6 sales of Sunrise between 2016–2023 — median $45, most falling between $35 and $53.
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, 2022-11-21. 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.