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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-VQPY-284B-F
1949 onward (Republic of Ireland era)
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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.
The Peterson Standard System 313 is a medium bent Billiard of the so-called Dutch style, characterised by a cylindrical bowl, a muscular shank, and an overall tubular profile that gives the pipe its distinctly Petersonian presence. This example is a briar pipe in the Standard System line, fitted with a nickel mount and the firm's signature P-Lip mouthpiece, which directs smoke upward toward the roof of the mouth rather than at the tongue. It is a non-filter model retaining its sleeve, and like all System pipes it incorporates the moisture reservoir bored below the airway — the mechanical heart of the design, intended to deliver a cooler and drier smoke by trapping condensate away from the draft.
Peterson of Dublin, founded in 1865, occupies a central place in Irish pipe-making history. In the 1890s Charles Peterson patented the System design, combining the reservoir, the graduated bore, and eventually the P-Lip into an integrated smoking system that remains in production to this day. The 313 shape carries a long pedigree within the catalogue: it first appeared as shape 8 in Peterson's Patent catalogue of 1896, and the 313 numbering has been a fixture of the range since the 1930s, making it one of the most enduring configurations in the maker's history.
Dating rests on the country-of-origin stamping. The pipe is stamped 'Made in the Republic of Ireland,' a mark Peterson adopted only after Ireland formally became a republic in 1949; earlier production carries stamps such as 'Made in Ireland' or 'Irish Free State.' Peterson did not use factory date codes in this period, so the stamp establishes a floor rather than a precise year. On that evidence, this example belongs to the Republic era, from 1949 onward, and stands as a representative document of the mid-century Standard System line.
2025-10-19
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2025-10-19.
2025-11-08
Sold through Etsy for USD 145. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
6 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.filter 'none' removed).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 145sold 2025-11-08 · 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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2025-10-19. 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. 9 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.