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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-XE4W-PEJW-H
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, slightly bent brandy attributed to the PORTLAND marque. The brandy is one of the classic shapes of the pipe-making canon, its name and silhouette borrowed from the brandy snifter: a broad, rounded bowl that swells at the base and draws gently inward as it rises toward the rim. The proportions concentrate visual weight low in the bowl, giving the shape a settled, rounded stance quite distinct from the straighter walls of a billiard or the forward lean of a Dublin. On this example the shape is executed with a slight bend, a configuration that softens the line of the shank and stem and shifts the balance of the pipe closer to the hand than a fully straight rendering would. The smooth finish leaves the surface of the stummel unbroken by rustication or sandblasting, presenting the material's natural face across the bowl and shank. The PORTLAND name appears on a variety of pipes encountered in the estate trade, and marques of this kind were frequently produced as house brands or secondary lines rather than under a single continuously documented workshop. As a result, attribution rests here on the name as reported by the owner rather than on a corroborated factory history. Dating a pipe of this kind depends on stampings, logo styles, and construction details that can be tied to documented production periods. The honest conclusion is therefore an undetermined era: the pipe is recorded as a smooth, slightly bent brandy bearing the PORTLAND name, and its period of manufacture remains an open question in the archive.
2023-03-29
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-29.
2023-04-03
Sold through Etsy for USD 33. 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 33sold 2023-04-03 · 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 17 sales of PORTLAND between 2019–2026 — median $39, most falling between $15 and $52.
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, 2023-03-29. 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. 8 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.