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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-X9TX-N948-D
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 bent billiard from Lorenzo of Italy, carrying the designation 40 alongside the shape reference 8711, and fitted with a 9mm filter system. The bent billiard is among the most enduring forms in pipe design: it takes the classic billiard bowl — a cylindrical chamber with walls of even thickness and a modestly flared rim line — and adds a curved stem that drops the mouthpiece below the axis of the shank. The result is a pipe that hangs more comfortably in the jaw and places the bowl lower in the smoker's field of view, which is why the shape has remained a mainstay of production catalogues for well over a century. The 9mm filter bore is a hallmark of Continental European manufacture, sized to accept the charcoal-and-ceramic filter cartridges standardised in that market; the shank is drilled wide enough to seat the disposable filter between tenon and airway. Lorenzo was an Italian producer of factory-made pipes, part of the broad Italian working tradition that supplied serially numbered, machine-assisted shapes to domestic and export markets through the second half of the twentieth century. Italian production houses of this type identified their work with line names or numerals and shape numbers rather than date codes, and the markings here — the 40 designation and the 8711 shape reference — follow that pattern: they place the pipe within the maker's catalogue system but do not fix a year of manufacture.
2024-04-24
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-04-24.
2024-04-29
Sold through Etsy for USD 59. 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).
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 59sold 2024-04-29 · 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 212 sales of Lorenzo between 2016–2026 — median $44, most falling between $25 and $70.
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, 2024-04-24. 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.