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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-UYTX-BNX2-V
Era 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 documents a bent billiard from Oldenkott, marked to the Dorado Nicofry line and finished smooth, with a stem bored for the 9mm filter system. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe-making canon: a cylindrical bowl of roughly equal height and shank length, here rendered in its bent configuration, in which the shank and stem curve downward to drop the bowl below the line of the bit. The bent billiard offers the classic proportions of the straight version while shifting the pipe's weight for comfortable clenching, and it has long been a staple of Continental workshops.
Oldenkott is one of the historic names of the German tobacco trade, a house whose roots reach back into the eighteenth century and whose pipes circulated widely across Germany and neighbouring markets through the twentieth century. The Dorado Nicofry designation identifies a specific line within that output; the 'Nicofry' element reflects the German industry's long preoccupation with filtration, and the pipe's 9mm bore places it squarely within that tradition. The 9mm paper-and-charcoal filter became the standard of German pipe smoking in the mid-twentieth century, and its presence in a pipe is one of the most reliable indicators of manufacture for the German domestic market.
Dating rests on the character of the piece rather than any factory date code, as Oldenkott pipes do not carry a year-specific stamping system that would allow a single year of manufacture to be fixed. The owner's description places it as a vintage German estate piece, and the 9mm filter convention is consistent with production from the middle decades of the twentieth century onward. On that basis the record assigns an honest bracket of vintage twentieth-century German manufacture, with the precise era left open pending further documentary evidence.
2023-03-27
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-27.
2023-11-03
Sold through Etsy for USD 28. 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 (era 'vintage, 20th century).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 28sold 2023-11-03 · 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 134 sales of Oldenkott between 2015–2026 — median $35, most falling between $24 and $55.
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, 2023-03-27. 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. 7 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.