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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-VQM9-TV94-H
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 Zulu-shaped pipe is stamped with the John Peel Special brand and the number 821, indicating its shape model. It carries the secondary Barling 2nd stamp, suggesting a connection to the Barling manufacturing firm. The additional marking 'A Portland Pipe Made Wholly In England' points to a complex provenance, as the Portland Pipe Company was a distinct entity, though some of its brands are said to have later been produced by Barling. The pipe's form follows the classic Zulu design, characterized by a forward-canting bowl and an elongated, gently curved shank that creates a graceful silhouette. Its construction is of , and it bears the full complement of English origin stamps. The dating of this piece relies solely on its stampings, which do not include a factory date code, placing it within an undetermined era of English pipe production.
2021-02-10
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2021-02-10.
2021-04-08
Sold through eBay for USD 36. 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 (parts.bowl_material 'briar' removed).
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 36sold 2021-04-08 · 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 27 sales of John Peel Special between 2018–2025 — median $36, most falling between $18 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, 2021-02-10. 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.