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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-Y57T-W4E7-3
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 Danish estate billiard from the Zodiac series, designated 'Scorpio' and carrying the shape number 21, attributed to the workshop of Preben Holm. The Zodiac series belongs to a familiar mid-century Danish practice of naming pipe lines after astrological signs, each sign lending its identity to a particular model within the range; here Scorpio is paired with one of pipe making's most enduring forms. His workshop also produced pipes under other names for export, most famously the later Ben Wade freehands distributed in the United States. A numbered billiard from a themed series such as the Zodiac line represents the more classically disciplined side of his output, standing in contrast to the sculptural plateau-topped freehands for which he is best remembered. The billiard itself is the benchmark shape of the pipe world: a cylindrical bowl set essentially upright on a shank of roughly equal length to the bowl's height, prized for its balance and restraint. It is the form against which most other shapes are measured. Dating rests on attribution rather than any stamped code, as Danish workshops of this kind did not employ factory date-coding systems.
2022-10-30
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-30.
2022-11-01
Sold through eBay for USD 44. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 'Second half of the 20th century ' -> undetermined; 3 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 2022-11-01 · 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 23 sales of Preben Holm between 2015–2024 — median $95, most falling between $44 and $149.
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, 2022-10-30. 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. 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.