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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-UVD6-7A7F-J
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 a Vauen pipe from the maker's Kanu series, carrying the designation 3, finished in sandblast and fitted with a brass band at the shank. The sandblast treatment, in which softer grain is blasted away to leave the harder ring structure of the wood standing in relief, gives the surface a tactile, craggy texture and reduces overall weight; the brass band supplies a warm metallic accent at the stem junction and reinforces the shank in the traditional manner of banded pipes. The firm occupies a central place in German pipe history and is closely associated with the popularisation of the 9mm activated-charcoal filter system, a construction that became the dominant convention in the German market and shaped continental smoking habits for generations. Vauen's catalogue has long balanced classical shapes with named series lines, of which the Kanu is one, its individual models distinguished by number — here the 3. As an estate piece, the pipe has seen prior service, a fact recorded in the attribute checklist of this entry. Dating rests on the owner's identification rather than on documented stampings, and Vauen, like most German makers, did not employ a factory date-coding system that would fix a year of manufacture from the nomenclature alone. The Kanu designation places the pipe within a recognised Vauen series, but without corroborating stamp evidence the production window cannot be narrowed responsibly, and the era is therefore entered as undetermined. The pipe stands in the archive as a representative example of Vauen's sandblasted, brass-banded work within a named series — a characteristic expression of Nuremberg pipe manufacture.
2023-11-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-11-01.
2024-04-02
Sold through eBay for USD 185. 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 185sold 2024-04-02 · 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 248 sales of Vauen between 2016–2026 — median $60, most falling between $31 and $123.
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, 2023-11-01. 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. 10 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.