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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-UHEV-9BKY-F
Undetermined; owner-described as vintage, second half of the 20th century or later
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 Savinelli Roma-series factory second in the bent apple form, catalogued under shape number 626. The bowl is Mediterranean briar finished in a sandblast, a treatment that removes the softer wood from the surface to reveal the underlying grain structure in relief and reduce the pipe's weight. The pipe is fitted for the 9mm filter system that Savinelli helped popularise across the Italian industry, with the tenon bored to accept standard 9mm cartridges. Recorded measurements are a length of 5.4 inches, bowl height of 1.65 inches, chamber depth of 1.4 inches, and a weight of 1.3 ounces. The apple shape itself descends from the rounded, fruit-inspired bowls of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the bent variant curves the shank and stem downward for balance in the jaw, a geometry related to the Prince shape associated with Edward, Prince of Wales. Dating this example is necessarily imprecise. Savinelli does not employ a factory date code comparable to those used by houses such as Dunhill, so era attribution ordinarily rests on nomenclature style, logo variations, and line history. No stampings are transcribed in the source record, and the 'vintage' designation is the owner's characterisation rather than a documented attribution. The honest conclusion is an undetermined date within the broad span of Savinelli's later twentieth-century and subsequent production, pending examination of the stampings themselves.
2025-10-19
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2025-10-19.
2025-10-26
Sold through Etsy for USD 89. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-28
6 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 (2 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 89sold 2025-10-26 · 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 229 sales of Savinelli between 2015–2026 — median $65, most falling between $40 and $135.
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, 2025-10-19. 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.