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1 photographsArchive Record FUH-VCXX-V2JT-K
2002 (Christmas edition, owner-stated)
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 BBB Special Make in a smooth finish, dressed with a silver band and identified by its owner as a Christmas 2002 issue. It stands in the archive as a representative of one of the oldest names in English pipe making. The famous BBB rhombus is widely cited as the first registered trademark in the British pipe trade, and for well over a century the brand supplied briars across the full range of the English market, from workaday smokers to silver-mounted presentation pieces. The Special Make designation belongs to BBB's established line nomenclature, marking pipes positioned within the firm's graded output of smooth-finished briars. The smooth finish itself is the classic English treatment: the polished and stained to display its natural grain rather than blasted or rusticated. The silver band serves both a decorative and a structural role at the shank, and on English pipes such mounts frequently carry assay hallmarks, which in British silver practice include a date letter — a valuable dating tool for the researcher, since the hallmark year anchors the pipe independently of any brand records. Dating in this case rests on the owner's identification of the piece as a Christmas 2002 edition, a practice among established houses of issuing seasonally designated pipes in a given year. Taken together, the Special Make line stamp, the silver mount, and the stated Christmas designation place this example firmly in the early twenty-first-century production of the venerable BBB marque, with 2002 as the honest and specific bracket for the record.
2023-07-28
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-28.
2023-08-18
Sold through eBay for USD 60. 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).
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 60sold 2023-08-18 · 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 113 sales of BBB between 2015–2025 — median $52, most falling between $35 and $71.
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, 2023-07-28. 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. 1 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.