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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-XQAA-KDUC-4
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 of Nuremberg, catalogued under shape number 7074 within the maker's Dr Perl line and dressed in a sandblast finish. The stem terminates in a P-lip mouthpiece, a bit design in which the smoke channel exits through the upper surface of the lip rather than the end face, directing the smoke stream upward toward the roof of the mouth. The Dublin form itself is one of the classic charted shapes: a bowl whose walls taper outward from a narrower base to a wider rim, producing a conical chamber, here mounted on a straight shank in an unbent configuration. Vauen occupies a foundational place in German pipe history. The Nuremberg firm traces its lineage to workshops of the mid-nineteenth century and took its modern form through the consolidation of the Vereinigte Pfeifenfabriken Nürnberg at the turn of the twentieth century, making it Germany's oldest continuously operating pipe manufactory. The Dr Perl name is closely bound to the company's identity: it designates Vauen's proprietary filter system, the innovation with which the firm popularised the 9mm activated-charcoal filter that became the standard fitting across German-market pipes. A pipe carrying the Dr Perl designation therefore situates itself squarely within that filtered smoking tradition. Dating rests on limited evidence. Vauen does not employ a factory date-coding system on its stampings, so the shape number 7074 identifies the model within the catalogue but does not fix a year of manufacture.
2022-12-28
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-28.
2023-06-26
Sold through Etsy for USD 58. 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 58sold 2023-06-26 · 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, 2022-12-28. 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. 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.