Loading
Loading
8 photographsArchive Record FUH-UCCR-MV6R-W
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 catalogued as a Jirsa pipe in the maker's Scoop shape, carrying the shape number 24 and worked in a partially smooth finish. The designation "partially smooth" describes a treatment in which polished surfaces share the stummel with contrasting textured or unworked passages, a technique long favoured by carvers who wish to exhibit the character of the wood while retaining areas of tactile relief. The Scoop designation appears to be a house shape name rather than one drawn from the classic English shape charts, and paired with a numeral it functions as a catalogue reference within the maker's own range of forms. The Jirsa name is associated with Czech pipe making, a tradition that developed its own vocabulary of freehand and semi-freehand shapes distinct from the Anglo-Danish mainstream, often emphasising organic silhouettes and mixed-texture finishes of precisely the kind seen here. Within that tradition, evocative shape names attached to workshop numbers are a common cataloguing practice, and the present piece fits that pattern. Dating a pipe of this kind proceeds differently from dating the products of the large factory houses. Jirsa pipes carry no factory date-coding system of the sort found on, for example, mid-century Dunhills, where a suffix numeral fixes the year of manufacture. None of those anchors accompanies this example, and so the record deliberately leaves the era open rather than assign a bracket the evidence cannot support. The pipe therefore stands in the archive as a shape-and-finish reference for the Jirsa Scoop 24: a document of the form itself, with its chronology held in reserve until firmer evidence emerges.
2023-04-27
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-27.
2023-05-01
Sold through eBay for USD 85. 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).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 85sold 2023-05-01 · 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 sample this sits in: Faridunhill has recorded 5 sales of Jirsa between 2018–2023 — median $79, most falling between $50 and $85.
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, 2023-04-27. 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.