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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-Y48H-T852-Q
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 Duncan Delta, an English metal-system pipe fitted with a sandblasted bowl in the acorn shape. The acorn is one of the more sculptural bowl forms in the pipe-making repertoire, tapering from a broad shoulder to a narrowed heel in a silhouette recalling its namesake; rendered here in a sandblast finish, the bowl presents a textured, craggy surface that follows the material's natural grain structure while reducing weight and increasing the radiating surface of the bowl walls. In a metal pipe of this type, the bowl is carried on a metal frame that forms the shank and structural body of the pipe, a construction that separates the burning chamber from the airway assembly and allows the bowl itself to be removed and interchanged. The metal-frame pipe is a distinctly twentieth-century development. Duncan of England belongs to this milieu, and the Delta designation marks this example within the firm's metal-pipe production, standing alongside the better-known Falcon as part of Britain's mid-century engagement with engineered smoking instruments. Dating rests on typology rather than a factory code, since no dating system of the kind used by certain large English houses attaches to this marque. The country stamping confirms English manufacture, and the metal-system construction itself is the strongest chronological anchor, as such pipes were made in quantity from the postwar years onward. Taken together, the marque, the national marking, and the construction type support an honest attribution to the mid-to-late twentieth century, with a narrower date left undetermined.
2022-11-30
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-30.
2023-04-06
Sold through Etsy for USD 48. 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 'mid-to-late 20th century; 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 48sold 2023-04-06 · 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 12 sales of Duncan between 2018–2025 — median $37, most falling between $15 and $48.
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, 2022-11-30. 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.