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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-VC2Y-5Y7V-U
2021
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 Peterson Lestrade from the firm's Christmas 2021 edition, an estate pipe of Irish manufacture presented in a rusticated finish and fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece rather than Peterson's signature P-Lip bit. The deep, craggy rustication is a hallmark treatment in the Peterson workshop, applied by hand to create a tactile, bark-like surface over the bowl and shank. The Lestrade, named for the Scotland Yard inspector of the stories, belongs to this Holmes family — a substantial, full-bodied shape in keeping with the generously proportioned bowls that define the entire series. The Christmas edition is one of Peterson's annual commemorative programmes, released each year in a distinct finish and configuration. Because these editions are tied explicitly to their year of issue, dating is unusually straightforward for this example: the Christmas 2021 designation places its production firmly in that year, without the need to consult stamping styles, country-of-manufacture marks, or the other indirect evidence on which the dating of older Peterson pipes typically relies. The record therefore assigns an era bracket of 2021 on the strength of the edition itself, as stated by the owner. As a dated, named-shape example from a commemorative series, the pipe serves as a useful anchor point in the archive for comparing Peterson's contemporary rustication work and Sherlock Holmes shape production against earlier iterations of the same forms.
2023-02-14
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-14.
2023-02-16
Sold through Etsy for USD 122. 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 (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 122sold 2023-02-16 · 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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2023-02-14. 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.