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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-UAEJ-RKYR-Y
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 from Kapp & Peterson of Dublin, presented in the firm's Wicklow line, carrying shape number 80S, fitted with a silver mount and finished with Peterson's signature P-Lip mouthpiece. The Wicklow belongs to Peterson's tradition of naming series after Irish counties and places, a practice that has run through the company's catalogue across many decades of production. The P-Lip on this example ties it directly to that engineering heritage and remains one of the most immediately recognisable features of any Peterson pipe. The silver mount is an equally characteristic Peterson element. The firm has long dressed its better lines with sterling bands at the shank, and these mounts serve the archivist as more than ornament: Peterson silver is customarily assayed in Dublin, and Irish hallmarks incorporate a date letter that can fix a pipe's year of manufacture with unusual precision. Dating a silver-mounted Peterson therefore proceeds by reading the hallmark sequence on the band, supplemented by the style of the country-of-manufacture stamp, which shifted in wording as Ireland moved from Free State to Republic. For this record the era is entered as undetermined, pending a hallmark reading; the honest bracket is simply Peterson's silver-mounted production of the modern catalogue period. Shape 80S sits within Peterson's numbered shape chart, the standard system by which the Dublin factory has organised its classic forms, and the number is part of the pipe's permanent identity as stamped.
2022-12-07
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-07.
2022-12-30
Sold through Etsy for USD 125. 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 (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 125sold 2022-12-30 · 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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2022-12-07. 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. 9 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.