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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-TG4D-CFPH-V
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 smooth-finished Canadian from BBB's Sovereign line, carrying the factory shape number 652 and fitted with a saddle stem. The Canadian is among the most disciplined shapes in the classical English repertoire: a compact bowl carried on a long shank of oval cross-section, with the shank itself doing most of the pipe's visual and functional work, terminating in a short bit. The saddle stem seen here gives the profile a crisp, stepped transition at the bit, a variation on the shape family that trades the traditional taper for a flatter, more angular line. BBB stands among the oldest names in British pipe making. Through the twentieth century the house produced graded lines of machine-made and hand-finished briars, of which Sovereign was one named series, and BBB pipes circulated widely through the English and export markets. Dating a BBB rests on the stampings and their style rather than any factory date code, since the marque did not employ a systematic dating scheme of the kind used by houses such as Dunhill. The nomenclature here — the Sovereign line name together with the three-digit shape number 652 — identifies the pipe within the maker's catalogue and confirms its English origin, but does not fix a year of manufacture. On that evidence the pipe is honestly bracketed to the twentieth century, consistent with its documented history as an English estate piece, with the precise period left open pending closer comparison of the stamping style against catalogued examples.
2023-03-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-01.
2023-10-01
Sold through Etsy for USD 40. 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; 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 40sold 2023-10-01 · 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 113 sales of BBB between 2015–2025 — median $52, most falling between $35 and $71.
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, 2023-03-01. 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. 8 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.