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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-VE6T-AB6H-M
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 is a smooth-finished billiard from the PISA line of Rossi, an Italian marque, recorded here as shape number 535 and stated by its owner to have been produced by Savinelli. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipemaking canon: a cylindrical bowl set roughly perpendicular to a straight shank of approximately equal length, its proportions serving as the baseline against which nearly every other classic shape is measured. A smooth finish, as seen here, presents the 's natural grain without rustication or sandblasting, and in Italian factory work of this class it is typically stained and polished to display the wood plainly. The Rossi name occupies a notable place in pipe history. After the original firm's decline, the trademark was eventually revived by Savinelli of Milan, which reintroduced Rossi as a value-oriented companion marque drawing on Savinelli's own stocks and production facilities. The caption's note that this pipe was made 'by Savinelli' places it within that modern revival rather than the historic Barasso factory. Dating a Rossi pipe depends on such contextual attribution, because the brand employed no factory date-coding system at any point in its history; nomenclature identifies line and shape, not year. The three-digit shape number follows the Savinelli-style numbering convention, consistent with the stated manufacture.
2022-11-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-01.
2022-12-08
Sold through eBay for USD 40. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 'Savinelli-era Rossi production, ' -> undetermined; 2 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 40sold 2022-12-08 · 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 13 sales of Rossi between 2018–2023 — median $45, most falling between $25 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, 2022-11-01. 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. 6 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.