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1 photographsArchive Record FUH-TXNT-X28A-5
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
No
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 record documents a smoker's lighter rather than a pipe: an Alexander Lloyd piece from the Ghost line, carrying the model designation 20U and catalogued with a silver roll exterior. It is preserved in the Faridunhill archive as a reference example of the accessories that accompanied pipe and cigar culture, a category the encyclopedia records alongside the pipes themselves because the two histories are inseparable at the smoker's table.
As a gas lighter, the piece belongs to the butane era of flame technology. Gas lighters operate on pressurised liquefied butane held in an internal reservoir and released through a metering valve, a system that largely displaced the older petrol-and-wick mechanism during the mid-twentieth century because it delivered a cleaner, odour-free flame — a quality especially prized by pipe and cigar smokers, whose tobacco could be tainted by petrol vapour. The designation recorded here identifies the fuel system plainly, and the 'silver roll' descriptor refers to the character of the case's silver-toned exterior as the owner catalogued it.
The Ghost model name and the 20U reference together form the identity under which the piece entered the archive, with the Alexander Lloyd branding recorded on the owner's authority. Dating rests on the same basis: butane lighters as a class situate the object broadly within the postwar decades onward, but the designation alone does not fix a year of manufacture, and the archive therefore assigns an undetermined era bracket rather than forcing a date the evidence cannot support. This is the archive's standard practice — the bracket remains open until stampings, patent marks, or documented catalogue references allow it to be narrowed. As it stands, the record preserves the object's stated identity, its fuel system, and its finish, and leaves the chronology to be refined by future research.
2023-07-26
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-26.
2024-03-01
Sold through eBay for USD 140. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 140sold 2024-03-01 · 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 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, 2023-07-26. 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. 1 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.