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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-X2TR-GHRR-9
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 Peterson Spigot in the maker's shape 80S, a Bulldog executed in a smooth finish and fitted with the firm's signature P-lip mouthpiece. It entered the archive as an Irish estate pipe. Two of its innovations define this example. The first is the P-lip, patented by Charles Peterson in the late nineteenth century: a graduated bore that directs smoke upward toward the roof of the mouth rather than at the tongue, a design the house has retained across generations of production. The second is the Spigot construction itself, in which the stem terminates in a metal-capped tenon seating into a metal-lined mortise — a mount descended from nineteenth-century military and travel pipes, allowing the stem to be withdrawn even while the pipe is warm. The Spigot line remains one of Peterson's most recognisable dress treatments. The Bulldog is one of the classic shapes of the pipe canon, traditionally characterised by a bowl of two converging cone-like planes, incised twin rings at the bowl's waist, and a diamond-section shank. Shape 80S denotes Peterson's rendering of this form within its numbered catalogue. Dating a Peterson typically proceeds from its stampings: country-of-manufacture marks such as 'Made in the Republic of Ireland' correspond to known periods of the firm's history, and silver-mounted examples can often be placed to a single year through Dublin hallmarks. In the present record the attribution rests on the owner's identification of the model and shape, and the pipe is therefore entered with its production era left as a broad, undetermined bracket within Peterson's long-running Spigot output.
2023-02-06
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-06.
2023-03-24
Sold through Etsy for USD 135. 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 (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 135sold 2023-03-24 · 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, 2023-02-06. 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. 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.