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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-YPDC-KM9X-N
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 bent egg pipe carrying the EMINENT Classic designation with shape number 607, produced in Germany and attributed to Oldenkott. The bowl is turned from briar and finished smooth, allowing the natural grain of the wood to remain visible across the surface. The stem follows a bent configuration, dropping the mouthpiece below the line of the shank in the manner favoured for egg-shaped bowls, where the curve of the stem continues the ovoid sweep of the body. The egg is among the classic bowl forms of the pipe-making canon: taller than a billiard, fuller at the waist, and tapering gently toward the rim, it presents a soft, organic silhouette. The seed's characterisation of the piece as Danish Design places it within the broad mid-to-late twentieth-century movement in which Scandinavian sculptural sensibilities — flowing lines, organic curves, and an emphasis on the natural character of the briar — spread through Continental pipe manufacture and were adopted by German makers among others. Oldenkott is a long-established German tobacco house whose name appears on German-market pipes, and the EMINENT Classic line represents its factory-shape production within that idiom. Dating rests on the stampings themselves. The marks EMINENT, Classic, and 607 function as brand, line, and shape identifiers rather than as a factory date code, so they fix the model within the maker's catalogue without pinning a year of manufacture. The pipe is preserved in the archive as a documented instance of German factory work in the Danish sculptural style.
2022-11-10
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-10.
2022-11-11
Sold through Etsy for USD 39. 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 (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 39sold 2022-11-11 · 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 5 sales of EMINENT between 2018–2023 — median $39, most falling between $25 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, 2022-11-10. 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.