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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-XFHG-CDH4-G
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 archive entry documents an estate tobacco pipe identified as a Peterson Irish Harp in a smooth finish, carrying the shape number 03 and fitted with a fishtail mouthpiece. The Irish Harp designation places the pipe within one of Peterson's named production series, its title drawing on the harp as the national emblem of Ireland, a motif long associated with the firm's Dublin identity. Peterson — properly Kapp & Peterson — is among the most historically significant names in pipe making. The present example, however, is recorded with a fishtail bit, the conventional flattened orifice cut that Peterson has long offered as the standard alternative to its patented lip, delivering smoke in a straightforward horizontal draw rather than the upward-directed channel of the P-Lip. The shape number 03 belongs to Peterson's internal numbering vocabulary, by which the factory catalogues its bowl and stem geometries across multiple finish lines. Dating a Peterson presents a well-known challenge for the reference archivist: the firm has never employed a factory date code, so era attribution normally proceeds from indirect evidence — the wording of country-of-manufacture stamps, which shifted through 'Made in Ireland', 'Made in Eire', and 'Made in the Republic of Ireland' phases across the twentieth century, together with hallmark dates on silver-mounted examples and the documented lifespan of particular series. No such stampings were transcribed for this pipe, and it bears no hallmarked mount in the record, so the honest conclusion is an undetermined era within Peterson's ongoing production. The pipe stands in the encyclopedia as a reference example of the Irish Harp line in its smooth-finished, fishtail configuration.
2023-02-17
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-17.
2023-03-08
Sold through eBay for USD 122. 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 122sold 2023-03-08 · 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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2023-02-17. 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. 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.