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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-Y2UE-9K6P-B
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 straight billiard by Raganella, an Italian marque, carrying the shape number 523 and fitted with a 9mm filter system. The billiard is the foundational form of the pipe-making canon: a cylindrical bowl set at a right angle to a shank of roughly equal length, with clean, unornamented lines that place the entire visual burden on the wood's grain and the maker's proportions. The smooth finish here follows that tradition, presenting the surface without rustication or sandblasting. The 9mm filter bore is a telling construction detail — this filter standard, in which a disposable charcoal or paper filter seats inside a widened mortise, became a hallmark of Continental European production and remains far more common in Italian and German workshops than in the English or American traditions. Its presence marks this billiard as a pipe built for the Continental smoking habit. Raganella — the word is Italian for tree frog — belongs to the broad ecosystem of Italian workshop brands that flourished around the country's cutting regions, where access to Mediterranean burl made Italy one of the world's principal pipe-producing nations through the twentieth century. Dating rests on the stampings alone: the ITALIA mark is a country-of-origin stamp of the kind applied to goods intended for export markets, and the numeral 523 is a catalogue shape number rather than a date reference. The honest conclusion for the archive is an undetermined era within the broad span of Italian series production, with the country attribution secured by the stamp itself.
2022-12-07
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-07.
2022-12-20
Sold through Etsy for USD 44. 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).
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 44sold 2022-12-20 · 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 18 sales of Raganella between 2017–2026 — median $40, most falling between $27 and $55.
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, 2022-12-07. 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. 6 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.