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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-X28J-H3RC-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 documents a Dr Boston pipe of the BISTRO line, a French-made smoking pipe cut in the bent volcano shape with a smooth finish and fitted for a 9mm filter. The volcano is one of the more sculptural forms in the standard shape vocabulary: its bowl tapers from a broad base to a narrower rim, suggesting the profile of a volcanic cone, and here the form is combined with a bent stem, which lowers the bowl in the hand and shifts the pipe's balance toward the jaw for comfortable clenching. The smooth finish leaves the surface of the stummel fully exposed, presenting the material without rustication or sandblasting. The 9mm filter system is a defining feature of much Continental European pipemaking. A widened tenon-and-mortise arrangement accepts a disposable charcoal or paper filter of 9mm diameter, seated in the shank between bowl and stem; the design is especially associated with German and French production and marks this pipe as belonging firmly to that Continental filter tradition. Dr Boston is documented here as a French brand, and this example carries the line name BISTRO together with the numeral 1862. The pipe is accordingly archived with its era left as an honest open bracket, its identity resting on the brand, line, shape, and filter system recorded above.
2023-03-06
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-06.
2023-03-28
Sold through Etsy for USD 49. 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 (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 49sold 2023-03-28 · 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 273 sales of Dr Boston between 2016–2026 — median $36, most falling between $20 and $75.
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, 2023-03-06. 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. 8 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.