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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-X752-93MK-3
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 an estate pipe recorded under the brand name NUTVIL, presented in a smooth finish and executed as a straight pipe in the apple-prince family of shapes. The apple is one of the classical bowl forms of the pipe-making tradition, characterised by a rounded, gently swelling bowl whose profile recalls the fruit for which it is named. The prince, a closely related derivative, is historically distinguished by a lower, more compressed apple-type bowl paired with a slender shank and stem; the shape is traditionally associated with Edward, Prince of Wales, whose preference for the form in the early twentieth century gave the design its enduring name. The present example unites these two shape descriptors, indicating a rounded bowl of low, refined proportion set on a straight axis from bowl to bit.
The smooth finish places this piece within the plainest and most traditional treatment of the pipe surface, in which the material is polished rather than carved, rusticated, or sandblasted, leaving the natural surface visible across the bowl and shank.
The NUTVIL name does not correspond to any of the widely documented major pipe manufactories, and the archive treats the brand attribution as owner-stated. The record derives from the estate designation, which establishes that the pipe passed through prior ownership and use before entering documentation. Because no factory stampings, date codes, or country-of-manufacture marks are documented for this example, no era bracket narrower than undetermined can be honestly assigned. The pipe therefore stands in the archive as a reference for the apple-prince silhouette and the smooth finish as applied by a lesser-documented brand, its structural record preserving precisely what is known and nothing beyond it.
2023-01-31
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-31.
2023-02-04
Sold through Etsy for USD 22. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
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 22sold 2023-02-04 · 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 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, 2023-01-31. 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. 6 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.