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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-YQYF-9W2K-D
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 an Italian estate pipe carrying the CAPRI mark, executed as a straight billiard in Algerian briar with a rusticated finish. The billiard is the foundational shape of the classical pipe canon: a cylindrical bowl set at a near right angle to a shank of roughly equal length, its proportions serving as the baseline against which most other shapes are measured. Here the form is dressed in rustication — a deliberately carved, craggy surface texture that Italian workshops have long favoured, both for its grip in the hand and for its ability to increase the surface area through which the bowl sheds heat. The stated use of Algerian briar is the most historically interesting feature of the record. Briar from the Algerian coast was prized through the first two-thirds of the twentieth century for its light weight and open, porous grain structure, qualities widely credited with producing a dry, cool smoke. A credible Algerian-briar attribution therefore tends to pull a pipe's likely origin toward the mid-twentieth century, though the material alone cannot fix a date. CAPRI is documented here as an Italian marque, situating the pipe within the broad Lombard and Ligurian pipe-making tradition that made Italy one of the great production centres of the post-war era. The marque offers no known factory date-coding system, so dating rests on material and provenance rather than stampwork. The pipe is preserved in this archive as a representative example of the rusticated Italian billiard and of Algerian briar as a vanished material of the trade.
2023-03-27
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-27.
2024-03-06
Sold through Etsy for USD 30. 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; 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 30sold 2024-03-06 · 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 CAPRI between 2016–2026 — median $61, most falling between $30 and $125.
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, 2023-03-27. 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.