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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-XDQD-483D-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 Vauen Dr Perl, shape 4276, a straight pot finished in sandblast and originating from a German estate. The pot is one of the classic chart shapes: a comparatively short, wide-mouthed cylindrical bowl with a flat rim, paired here with a straight stem running in a single line from shank to bit. The sandblast treatment strips away the softer grain of the wood to leave a textured, craggy surface that follows the growth rings of the block, a finish valued both for its tactile character and its light weight relative to a smooth-polished bowl of the same size. The firm is most widely known as the pioneer of the 9mm activated-charcoal filter system that came to define German pipe smoking, and the Dr Perl name — attached both to Vauen's filters and to this line of pipes — commemorates that innovation. Pipes in the Dr Perl series are built around that filter tradition and represent the company's mainstream production: sturdy, machine-assisted factory work finished to consistent standards, with the shape number identifying the model within the catalogue. Dating rests entirely on the owner's identification, as Vauen does not employ a factory date-coding system on its stampings. The shape number 4276 places the pipe within the catalogued Dr Perl range, but shape numbers persist across production years and cannot fix a moment of manufacture. The record therefore closes on an honest bracket: a German-made Vauen Dr Perl of undetermined era, documented here as a representative example of the Nuremberg factory's filtered straight pot.
2022-09-28
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-09-28.
2022-10-22
Sold through eBay for USD 53. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 53sold 2022-10-22 · eBay
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 248 sales of Vauen between 2016–2026 — median $60, most falling between $31 and $123.
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, 2022-09-28. 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. 9 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.