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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-WVA7-9TF7-M
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 reference example is a smooth-finished straight pipe cut in the Prince shape, attributed by its estate provenance to Germany and carried under the Heibe World name. The Prince is one of the classic shapes of the traditional pipe chart: it is defined by a low, squat bowl with a rounded, slightly flattened profile, a short shank, and a comparatively slender stem, a combination that lends the shape an elegance out of proportion to its modest size. The shape is generally associated with early twentieth-century English fashion, its name popularly linked to the Prince of Wales who later reigned as Edward VIII, and it has since been produced by makers across every pipe-making nation. The present example is executed in the straight configuration, the shank and stem forming a single unbroken line from bowl to bit, and the stummel is finished smooth rather than blasted or rusticated, allowing the surface of the wood to read plainly.
Germany holds a long and substantial place in pipe history, with production centres that have supplied both domestic and export markets for well over a century, and the Heibe World marking places this piece within that broader German trade. The marque is not among those documented with systematic factory date codes of the kind used by certain large houses to fix a year of manufacture, and this record's dating therefore rests on the estate attribution itself rather than on stamping analysis. As an archive entry, the pipe stands as a representative example of the smooth straight Prince as produced for the German market, and its era bracket is held as undetermined pending further documentary evidence.
2022-11-07
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-07.
2023-03-04
Sold through Etsy for USD 35. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 35sold 2023-03-04 · 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 25 sales of Heibe World between 2015–2026 — median $25, most falling between $20 and $45.
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, 2022-11-07. 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. 7 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.