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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-XF33-FNJG-Y
Era 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 straight Dublin from Vauen's Dr Perl line, finished in a sandblast and carrying the shape number 8074. The Dublin is one of the oldest and most recognisable shapes in the pipe-making canon: a bowl whose walls flare outward from a narrower base to a wider rim, giving the chamber a distinctive conical profile. Rendered here as a straight pipe, the form presents the classic uncomplicated silhouette that has made the Dublin a fixture of European factory catalogues for well over a century. The sandblast finish exposes the material's natural grain structure in relief, a treatment valued both for its tactile character and its light weight relative to smooth-finished equivalents.
Vauen, of Nuremberg, holds a singular place in German pipe history. Tracing its lineage to the nineteenth century, it is widely regarded as Germany's oldest pipe manufactory, and it is historically credited with pioneering the 9mm activated-charcoal filter system in the early twentieth century — an innovation commemorated in the Dr Perl name, which the firm has long used for its filter-oriented lines. The Dr Perl designation thus situates this pipe within the mainstream of German filtered-pipe culture, a tradition that remains strongest in the German-speaking market to this day.
Dating rests on owner attribution rather than documentary evidence. Vauen pipes do not carry a factory date code in the manner of some English marques, so an individual example cannot ordinarily be pinned to a production year from its stampings alone. The shape number 8074 identifies the catalogue model but not the period of manufacture. The record therefore closes on an honest bracket: a German-made estate pipe of the twentieth or twenty-first century, its precise vintage undetermined, preserved here as a representative example of Vauen's Dr Perl Dublin in sandblast.
2023-04-17
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-17.
2024-04-03
Sold through Etsy for USD 40. 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 (era 'undetermined).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 40sold 2024-04-03 · 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 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, 2023-04-17. 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. 7 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.