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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-VE8M-DCNT-P
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 Parker straight apple, shape 82, finished smooth and drilled to accept a 9mm filter. The apple is one of the classic English shape families: a rounded, slightly compressed bowl of gentle ovoid profile, set on a straight shank and completed here by a straight stem. The 9mm filter system, in which a disposable charcoal or paper filter seats inside the tenon or mortise area, is a configuration most strongly associated with the continental European market, and English houses produced dedicated filter versions of their standard shapes to serve it. Parker occupies a well-documented position in London pipe history. The phrase 'by Dunhill' attached to this example reflects that corporate lineage, which is precisely why Parker pipes are studied alongside Dunhill in reference collections. Dating Parker pipes is a different exercise from dating Dunhills. Dunhill applied a systematic factory date-code suffix to its stampings; Parker did not carry an equivalent year-by-year code, so attribution rests on nomenclature style, shape numbers, and configuration. The three-digit-free shape number 82 and the 9mm filter arrangement place this pipe within Parker's twentieth-century catalogue production, and the archive records it under an honest bracket of twentieth century, precise era undetermined.
2022-11-23
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-23.
2022-12-22
Sold through Etsy for USD 75. 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 '20th century, precise era undete' -> undetermined; 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 75sold 2022-12-22 · 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 40 sales of Parker between 2015–2026 — median $69, most falling between $45 and $159.
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, 2022-11-23. 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.