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14 photographsArchive Record FUH-YVGD-CFHF-A
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.
| Country |
| Italy |
No dating evidence has been recorded on this example yet.
Owner-stated. Facts as reported with the piece; not yet independently corroborated.Attribution is our documented expert opinion with its evidence — never a certification.
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.
LORENZO over MONTE BIANCO over 101, struck on the shank, tells you who made this big, bright full bent pipe.
This is a smooth full bent Oom Paul by Lorenzo of Gallarate, Italy, in a bright orange stain, with a freehand-style saddle vulcanite stem, a 9mm filter and a fishtail bit. It is a pre-smoked estate pipe in excellent condition.
THE MARKS - Lorenzo, in the maker's script logo - MONTE BIANCO - 101
Lorenzo began as Fratelli Lana, founded in Gallarate in the province of Varese in 1900. The Tagliabue family took the firm over in 1946, and in 1969 the brand was renamed Lorenzo Pipes. Pipedia describes the Lorenzos of that time as pipes with thick walls, broad stems and a silk-matte finish in bold red or bright orange stain, and names a big Oom Paul, made in many variants, as the house best seller. This pipe follows that line: a full bent Oom Paul in a bright orange stain. In 1988 the Aliverti family bought the rights to the Lorenzo name. The Lorenzo wordmark tells us the pipe was most likely made in or after 1969; no source we hold dates the Monte Bianco line or the number 101, so we give no closer year.
An Oom Paul is the deepest bend of all: the shank runs low and the stem rises in a full curve beside the bowl, so the pipe hangs easily from the teeth and the bowl sits close to the chin. On this pipe the briar is smooth and rounded, with the grain showing through the orange stain. The vulcanite saddle stem swells into a rounded collar near the shank before it rises in its curve, a freehand touch.
The stem takes a 9mm filter. The bit is a fishtail: it flattens and widens toward the tip, which gives the teeth and lips a broad, comfortable surface to rest on.
Condition: pre-smoked, in excellent condition. Please see the photographs.
THE MEASUREMENTS - Length: 143 mm (5.63 in) - Bowl height: 60 mm (2.36 in) - Bowl width: 44 mm (1.73 in) - Chamber diameter: 20 mm (0.79 in) - Chamber depth: 51 mm (2.01 in) - Weight: 71 g (2.50 oz)
2026-10-17
Logged from the Faridunhill shop - photographed and listed on faridunhill.com, 2026-10-17.
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
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.
Faridunhill shop post, 2026-10-17. 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. 14 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.