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13 photographsArchive Record FUH-WDQV-RWN2-3
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.
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.
SILVER MATCH, REAL BRIAR, 77 - three marks on a tall black bowl. This is a straight sandblasted chimney, with a vulcanite tapered stem ending in a fishtail bit. It is pre-smoked, in very good condition.
The chimney takes its name from its proportions: a narrow bowl rises well above the shank, giving the pipe a tall, upright profile. Here the bowl stands 58 mm high, against a width of 34 mm. The straight shank and slender stem keep the outline simple, leaving the height and texture of the bowl to define the shape.
THE MARKS - SILVER MATCH stamped on the shank - REAL BRIAR stamped on the shank - 77 stamped on the shank
REAL BRIAR identifies the bowl material. The number 77 is recorded as it appears; it is not treated as a manufacturing date. No specific production year is established for this pipe.
The finish is a dark sandblast. Blasting removes softer areas of the wood and leaves a textured surface following the harder grain. The resulting relief runs around the bowl and shank, with the black finish emphasizing the ridges and hollows. Unlike a smooth finish, it presents the grain as something felt as well as seen.
The black vulcanite stem tapers gradually from the shank toward its fishtail mouthpiece. A tapered stem follows a continuous narrowing line; the fishtail is the wider, flattened end of the bit. This pipe takes no filter.
Condition: Pre-smoked, in very good condition. The photographs show the finish, rim, chamber, stem and markings, including the pipe with its stem removed.
THE MEASUREMENTS - Length: 148 mm (5.83 in) - Bowl height: 58 mm (2.28 in) - Bowl width: 34 mm (1.34 in) - Chamber diameter: 20 mm (0.79 in) - Chamber depth: 53 mm (2.09 in) - Weight: 46 g (1.62 oz)
2026-11-09
Logged from the Faridunhill shop - photographed and listed on faridunhill.com, 2026-11-09.
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
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.
Faridunhill shop post, 2026-11-09. 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. 13 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.