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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-YWQR-B63A-T
2018
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
No
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 documents a Peterson pipe from the firm's St. Patrick's Day edition of 2018, executed in the factory's shape number 304 and recorded from an Irish estate. The house built its reputation on distinctive engineering, most famously the Peterson System bowl and the P-Lip mouthpiece, and its numbered shape chart has remained a fixture of the hobby for well over a century, with shape 304 occupying a place within that established catalogue. The St. Patrick's Day series is one of Peterson's best-known annual commemorative lines, issued each year in celebration of Ireland's national holiday. Each release is produced across a selection of classic Peterson shapes and given a finish or livery chosen for that year alone, which makes the series designation itself the primary dating instrument: a St. Patrick's Day pipe carries its year of issue within its very identity. The 2018 edition therefore anchors this example firmly to that production year without recourse to hallmark tables or factory codes, a directness of dating that few pipe lines afford. Where many marques must be bracketed by decades through the gradual evolution of stampings and logos, an annual commemorative edition collapses that uncertainty to a single year. As an entry in this archive, the pipe serves to illustrate both the shape 304 form within Peterson's numbered system and the character of the maker's yearly commemorative output — a tradition that has kept the Dublin firm's seasonal editions in steady circulation among students of Irish pipe making. The era bracket for this example is 2018, fixed by the edition designation under which it was produced and recorded.
2023-07-20
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-20.
2023-07-24
Sold through eBay for USD 109. 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 (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 109sold 2023-07-24 · 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 1222 sales of Peterson between 2015–2026 — median $95, most falling between $59 and $145.
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, 2023-07-20. 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. 10 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.