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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-RQD7-4YJT-D
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 Peterson barrel-shaped tobacco pipe finished in the firm's Ebony dress, fitted with a silver mount and the maker's signature P-lip mouthpiece, and recorded as an Irish estate piece. The barrel form is a stout, cylindrical bowl profile whose broad walls lend it a substantial presence in the hand, and it has long featured among Peterson's traditional shape offerings. The Ebony designation refers to Peterson's deep black finish, a smooth dress treatment that presents the in uniform dark stain and pairs naturally with polished silverwork at the shank. Peterson, established in Dublin in the nineteenth century by the Kapp brothers and later joined by Charles Peterson, is among the most historically significant names in Irish pipemaking. Two innovations define the house: the Peterson System, a patented moisture-trapping shank reservoir, and the P-lip mouthpiece seen on this example. The P-lip directs the smoke stream upward toward the roof of the mouth through a graduated bore, an arrangement Peterson introduced to reduce tongue bite and moisture at the button; it remains one of the most recognisable bit designs in the craft. Silver mounting is likewise a longstanding Peterson practice, with sterling bands frequently applied at the shank face of the firm's dressier lines. Dating a Peterson conventionally proceeds from the stampings and, where present, the hallmarks struck into the silver mount, since Dublin assay marks carry date letters that can fix a year of manufacture with unusual precision for a pipe. Country-of-manufacture wording in the stamp — Ireland, Éire, Made in the Republic of Ireland — also brackets production periods.
2023-09-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-09-21.
2023-10-09
Sold through eBay for USD 129. 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).
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 129sold 2023-10-09 · 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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2023-09-21. 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. 10 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.