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1 photographsArchive Record FUH-Y8WF-M68Y-Y
circa 1960
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 record documents a Killarney pipe bearing shape number 122, marked as 'A Peterson Product' and stamped 'London Made England', fitted with Peterson's signature P-Lip mouthpiece. The pipe entered the archive as an Irish estate piece and is attributed by its owner to circa 1960. The Killarney name belongs to the family of secondary lines produced under the Peterson umbrella. Killarney, named for the town in County Kerry, is among the better known of these lines. The P-Lip mouthpiece present here is central to Peterson's identity. Patented by Charles Peterson, the design directs smoke upward toward the roof of the mouth through a graduated bore terminating in a small aperture on the upper face of the button, an arrangement intended to reduce tongue bite and moisture at the bit. Its presence on a Killarney underscores how the firm extended its patented features across its product range. Dating rests principally on the 'London Made England' stamp. Taken together with the sub-brand styling of the stamps and the owner's attribution, the pipe is reasonably placed at circa 1960, within the closing years of Peterson's London-made output. The shape number 122 identifies its position within the factory's numbered shape chart of the period.
2023-07-29
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-29.
2023-10-07
Sold through eBay for USD 100. 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 (2 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 100sold 2023-10-07 · 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 45 sales of Killarney between 2018–2025 — median $80, most falling between $50 and $95.
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, 2023-07-29. 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. 1 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.