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18 photographsArchive Record FUH-X5V9-NDX5-K
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.
No dating evidence has been recorded on this example yet.
Owner-stated. Facts as reported with the piece; not yet independently corroborated.Attribution is our documented expert opinion with its evidence — never a certification.
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 is a Design Berlin pipe from the Swing series, stamped db Swing in a smooth panel on the shank: a sandblasted, paneled freehand sitter. It is pre-smoked and in good condition; the rim has a rough sandblast, and an attempt to remove a burn spot left a tiny dent.
Design Berlin is a German pipe maker, and Swing is one of its series. The db logo sits in white inside a square outline on the stem, near the shank end.
THE MARKS - db Swing (on the shank, in a smooth panel) - db logo in a square outline (on the stem)
A further mark to the right of the shank panel cannot be read in the photographs.
THE SHAPE AND THE STEM A freehand is shaped by its maker rather than to a standard chart shape. This one has a paneled bowl: the sides are flat, the rim is square around a round chamber, and the bowl is wider at the top than at its base. It is also a sitter, with a flat base, so the pipe can stand on its own. The sandblast covers the bowl and the shank.
The stem is an acrylic tapered panel stem, and it ends in a wide, flat fishtail bit. The pipe is made for a 9mm filter.
No date is given for this pipe. The pipe is shown on a cloth pouch with a drawstring in the last photographs.
Please see the photographs for the rim and the tiny dent.
THE MEASUREMENTS - Length: 158 mm (6.22 in) - Bowl height: 53 mm (2.09 in) - Bowl width: 40 mm (1.57 in) - Chamber diameter: 20 mm (0.79 in) - Chamber depth: 37 mm (1.46 in) - Weight: 59 g (2.08 oz)
2026-11-09
Logged from the Faridunhill shop - photographed and listed on faridunhill.com, 2026-11-09.
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
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.
Faridunhill shop post, 2026-11-09. 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. 18 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.