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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-VPB3-GYKE-X
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 straight tobacco pipe attributed to the Silk Brush marque, catalogued under a combined shape designation of Rhodesian and Acorn. It entered the archive as an estate piece — a pipe that has passed through prior ownership and use — and stands here as a study of how a lesser-documented brand interprets two of pipe making's classic bowl geometries.
The Rhodesian is one of the canonical shapes of the twentieth-century catalogue: a rounded, bulbous bowl divided by one or more incised beadlines at its widest point, giving the profile its characteristic capped appearance. In its straight configuration, as recorded here, the shank runs in a level line from bowl to bit, a treatment less common than the bent Rhodesian and one that lends the form a more upright, formal carriage. The Acorn designation points toward a bowl that tapers downward from its broadest upper section to a narrower heel, echoing the silhouette of its namesake seed. A pipe described under both terms suggests a hybrid reading — a beaded, rounded crown resolving into a tapered underbowl — a pairing that turn-of-the-century and mid-century factories offered under various shape numbers.
Silk Brush is a marque that appears among mixed estate groupings rather than in the mainstream reference literature, and its attribution here rests on the cataloguer's identification rather than on documented factory records. The brand is not associated with any published system of date coding, and the seed record transcribes no stampings from the shank or stem. Dating therefore proceeds from typology alone, and typology for a shape as long-lived as the Rhodesian cannot narrow the window meaningfully. The honest conclusion is an undetermined era, with the pipe's value to the archive resting in its shape vocabulary and its documentation of a marginal estate-market brand.
2023-03-20
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-20.
2023-06-19
Sold through Etsy for USD 24. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 24sold 2023-06-19 · 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 13 sales of Silk Brush between 2018–2025 — median $75, most falling between $24 and $110.
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, 2023-03-20. 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.