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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-WJBE-C3TT-E
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 record documents a Peterson System Standard in shape 302, presented in a smooth finish and fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. It is identified as an Irish estate pipe, consistent with Peterson's long-standing manufacture in Ireland, and it has seen prior use. The System pipe incorporates a moisture reservoir bored below the airway in the shank, intended to condense and trap moisture before it reaches the smoker. The System Standard is the workhorse tier of that family, positioned below the De Luxe and Premier grades but built around the same reservoir engineering. Within the System range, Peterson mouthpieces are offered in two principal configurations: the famous P-Lip, with its upward-directed smoke hole, and the conventional fishtail slot seen here, which delivers smoke straight along the bit in the usual manner. The fishtail option has long been catalogued alongside the P-Lip for smokers who prefer a traditional draw. The 302 designation belongs to Peterson's numbered System shape chart, in which the 300-series numbers denote the fishtail-mouthpiece versions of the classic bent System forms. Dating a Peterson generally proceeds from the wording of the country-of-manufacture stamp — phrases such as 'Made in Ireland,' 'Irish Free State,' or 'Made in the Republic of Ireland' correspond to distinct political and production periods — and, on silver-mounted examples, from Dublin hallmarks.
2024-03-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-03-21.
2024-03-24
Sold through Etsy for USD 105. 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 'undetermined; falls within Peter' -> 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 105sold 2024-03-24 · 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, 2024-03-21. 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. 10 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.