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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-RQBD-9BV2-R
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 smooth-finished straight panel billiard catalogued under the Drury line of the John Surrey mark, entering the archive from an American estate grouping. The panel billiard is one of the classic variations on the most enduring shape in the pipe maker's repertoire: it retains the billiard's fundamental proportions — a cylindrical tobacco chamber set roughly perpendicular to the shank, with shank and stem carried in a single straight line to the bit — but the bowl's exterior is cut into flat facets rather than left fully round. The panelling gives the form a crisp, architectural character and presents broad, uninterrupted planes of grain, which a smooth finish is particularly suited to display. The straight configuration keeps the airway direct from chamber to button, a geometry long favoured for its simplicity of construction and ease of maintenance. John Surrey is a name associated with mid-twentieth-century American pipe retailing, one of the many house marks under which pipes were distributed to the United States market; Drury functions here as a line designation within that mark. Dating rests entirely on the nomenclature: the stampings identify the brand and line but do not incorporate a factory date-coding system of the kind used by a handful of European makers, so the piece cannot be fixed to a single year of manufacture. On the strength of the name-stamp attribution and its estate provenance, the pipe is placed honestly within a broad twentieth-century bracket, with a more precise era left undetermined.
2023-01-28
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-28.
2023-02-19
Sold through Etsy for USD 27. 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 century, undetermined' -> 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 27sold 2023-02-19 · 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 sample this sits in: Faridunhill has recorded 27 sales of John Surrey between 2018–2025 — median $36, most falling between $18 and $55.
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, 2023-01-28. 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.