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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-TDKK-75UU-J
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 an estate pipe catalogued under the Imperial marque in its Exclusive line, executed as a straight pot with a rusticated finish and fitted for the 9mm filter system. The pot is one of the classic chart shapes: a squat, wide bowl of comparatively low height, typically paired with a straight shank of similar visual weight. The proportions of the shape favour a broad, shallow tobacco chamber, and the form has long been valued for the way its short bowl walls present a wide smoking surface. The rusticated treatment seen here — a deliberately carved, textured surface worked into the exterior of the bowl and shank — is a traditional alternative to smooth finishes, historically employed both for its tactile grip and its ability to disguise surface flaws in the underlying block while adding character of its own. The 9mm filter accommodation places this pipe firmly within the continental European smoking tradition, where the 9mm charcoal or paper filter, seated in a widened mortise within the shank, became the dominant standard, particularly in the German and broader Central European markets. Pipes drilled for this system are built with an enlarged shank bore and are normally supplied with an adaptor when smoked without a filter. The Imperial name and the Exclusive line designation constitute the identity as recorded; the marque as presented here carries no documented factory date-coding system, and this example bears no catalogued stampings, hallmarks, or dated markings from which a manufacturing window could be constructed.
2022-10-27
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-27.
2022-10-29
Sold through Etsy for USD 24. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 2022-10-29 · 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 18 sales of Imperial between 2017–2026 — median $32, most falling between $7 and $115.
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, 2022-10-27. 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.