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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-UB7C-3G2C-7
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 archive record documents a German estate pipe attributed to Lindstrom: a smooth-finished bent billiard executed in the compact vest pocket format and fitted with a 9mm filter system. The bent billiard is among the most enduring forms in the pipemaking canon — a cylindrical bowl of classical billiard proportion joined to a shank and stem that curve downward toward the bit, a geometry that lowers the bowl's centre of gravity relative to the jaw and allows the pipe to hang comfortably. Rendered here at vest pocket scale, the shape is reduced to dimensions suited to being carried on the person, a format that enjoyed particular favour among European makers producing pipes for travel and everyday convenience.
The 9mm filter bore is itself a diagnostic feature of Continental, and especially German, pipe manufacture. The 9mm charcoal or paper filter became the dominant standard in the German-speaking market during the twentieth century, and its presence in the mortise indicates a pipe built for that market's smoking conventions, in which the filter is interposed between chamber and airway to moderate the smoke.
Dating rests on limited evidence. The Lindstrom attribution is owner-stated, and German workshop pipes of this class did not typically carry factory date codes of the kind found on certain English marques; consequently no year or narrow production window can be assigned from the nomenclature alone. The 9mm system places the pipe within the broad era of standardised German filter production, but the record honestly brackets the piece as undetermined in date. It stands in the encyclopedia as a reference example of the German bent billiard in vest pocket form: a smooth-finished, filtered, pocket-scaled expression of one of pipemaking's foundational shapes.
2023-01-12
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-12.
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.
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, 2023-01-12. 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.