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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-V4NC-G482-M
2010
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 Design Berlin Jahrespfeife of the year 2010, finished in sandblast and carrying the shape designation 336. It stands in the archive as a representative of the German annual-edition tradition, documented here as an estate piece from a German source. Design Berlin is a German pipe marque whose name reflects its origins in the German capital, and it belongs to the broader landscape of German factory pipemaking that has long balanced serial production with distinct model lines and finishes. The word Jahrespfeife translates literally as 'year pipe,' and it denotes a practice familiar across German and Danish pipemaking: the issue of a dedicated edition tied to a single calendar year, typically produced only during that year and identified by it thereafter. Such annual pipes serve as natural chronological markers within a maker's output, since the model name itself carries the date. The sandblast finish seen on this example is a treatment in which the surface of the stummel is blasted to relieve the softer growth rings, leaving a textured topography that follows the grain structure of the wood. It is a finish valued both for its tactile character and for the way it reveals the underlying grain in relief. The numeral 336 identifies the shape within the maker's numbering system, the conventional means by which factory workshops catalogued their forms. The era bracket for this record is therefore fixed to that single year, an unusually precise attribution among production pipes, resting on the annual-edition naming convention rather than on stamped codes or stylistic inference.
2023-07-02
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-02.
2023-07-04
Sold through eBay for USD 112. 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 113sold 2023-07-04 · 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 144 sales of Design Berlin between 2015–2026 — median $60, most falling between $27 and $124.
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, 2023-07-02. 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. 9 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.