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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-WKH5-5HX2-7
Republic of Ireland era, 1978–1990
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.
This reference example is a Peterson Deluxe System 01S, a compact bent pot in the Dutch billiard tradition, executed in smooth-finished briar with a nickel mount at the shank and no filter arrangement. The mouthpiece is Peterson's signature P-Lip with a graduated bore, set in a wide, flared stem that gives the short pipe its characteristic balance. The design incorporates the System reservoir, the moisture-trapping chamber engineered into the shank that has defined the marque since Charles Peterson patented the concept in the 1890s. Peterson of Dublin holds a singular place in pipe history as one of the world's oldest continuously operating briar pipe workshops, and the System line remains its most historically significant product — a self-contained smoking mechanism designed to deliver a drier, cooler smoke without external filters. Within that line, the Deluxe designation marks the upper grade of System production. According to the accompanying account, the 01S shape entered the catalogue in 1978 as a refined evolution of the 1906-era 1A Dutch billiard, a squat, wide-bowled form prized for compactness and heft in the hand: this example measures 5.52 inches in length with a 1.78-inch bowl and a generous 0.86-inch chamber, at a weight of 1.6 ounces. Dating rests on the attribution to Peterson's Republic of Ireland stamping era. The pipe is accompanied by its original Peterson sleeve. The record therefore assigns an honest bracket of 1978–1990, resting on owner attribution.
2025-10-13
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2025-10-13.
2025-10-19
Sold through Etsy for USD 195. 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; 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 195sold 2025-10-19 · 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 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, 2025-10-13. 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.