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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-U6CX-9TT4-X
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 Dr Plumb Extra bent billiard bearing the D.R.G.M marking and the number 757, presented in a smooth finish and recorded as an English estate pipe. The bent billiard is one of the foundational forms of the pipe-maker's repertoire: a round, evenly proportioned bowl of classic billiard geometry carried on a curved shank and stem, a configuration prized for balance in the hand and an easy, jaw-friendly clench. The smooth finish leaves the surface of the stummel fully visible, in keeping with the plainer, workmanlike presentation for which the brand is known.
Dr Plumb occupies a distinctive place in twentieth-century pipe history as a widely distributed value marque, sold in enormous numbers across Britain and continental Europe and closely associated with patented metal fitment systems in the shank. The 'Extra' designation identifies a line within the brand's catalogue, while the number 757 serves as the model or shape designation under which this bent billiard was produced.
The most instructive feature for dating is the D.R.G.M stamp. The abbreviation stands for Deutsches Reichsgebrauchsmuster, a German registered-design protection applied to utility models. Because the registration system belonged to the German Reich, the marking is inherently period-bound: it points to manufacture, or at least to a design registration, rooted in the first half of the twentieth century, with residual use of the mark fading in the years shortly after the Second World War. On a pipe of British association, the stamp typically signals a registered mechanical fitting rather than German manufacture of the pipe itself. Taken together — the brand, the Extra line, the 757 model number, and above all the D.R.G.M registration mark — the evidence supports an honest attribution to the mid-twentieth century, within the working lifetime of the German utility-model system that the stamp commemorates.
2022-12-11
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-11.
2022-12-25
Sold through Etsy for USD 39. 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 'Mid-20th century).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 39sold 2022-12-25 · 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 273 sales of Dr Plumb between 2016–2026 — median $36, most falling between $20 and $75.
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, 2022-12-11. 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.