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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-TMB5-DCU5-Y
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 an Oldenkott Toscana bent billiard, shape number 2559, a German-market pipe presented in a smooth finish and fitted with an army-mount stem junction and a 9mm filter system. The bent billiard is among the most enduring forms in the pipe-making canon: a cylindrical chamber with rounded walls set on a shank and stem that curve downward, shifting the bowl's weight closer to the hand and jaw than its straight counterpart. The army mount seen here is a functional construction in which the stem seats into a reinforced shank end by simple friction rather than a conventional mortise-and-tenon fit, a design historically valued for allowing the stem to be separated even while the pipe is warm. Oldenkott is a name of considerable age in the German tobacco trade, associated with tobacco commerce in the Rhine and Westphalia region for centuries before the name appeared on pipes aimed at the domestic German market. Pipes carrying the mark typify mainstream postwar German production, and the 9mm filter bore recorded on this example is the defining convention of that market, where charcoal-filter smoking became the national norm in the twentieth century. Dating rests on the stamped identity — Oldenkott, the Toscana line name, and shape number 2559 — together with the pipe's documented status as a German estate piece. On the balance of this evidence the pipe is placed honestly within an open bracket of twentieth- to twenty-first-century German production, its precise vintage undetermined.
2023-01-10
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-10.
2023-01-20
Sold through Etsy for USD 49. 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 'Undated German production, 20th–' -> undetermined; 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 49sold 2023-01-20 · 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 134 sales of Oldenkott between 2015–2026 — median $35, most falling between $24 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, 2023-01-10. 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.