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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-238Q-CUX3-4
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
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 is catalogued as a Stanwell from the Danish Design series, bearing the AMBER finish name and the shape number 118. Stanwell stands among the most historically significant names in Danish pipemaking. Stanwell is particularly noted for commissioning shape designs from celebrated Danish carvers, among them Sixten Ivarsson, Tom Eltang, and Jess Chonowitsch, whose freehand-influenced sensibilities were translated into serially produced factory shapes. The company's numbered shape chart is central to its identity: each number denotes a fixed shape that recurs across the firm's many named finish lines, of which Danish Design AMBER is one, the series name signalling both the design heritage and a finish treatment marketed under the AMBER designation. Dating a Stanwell requires explanation, because the factory never employed a date-coding system of the kind found on some English marques. In the present record, the designation is owner-stated and no stamping detail bearing on chronology has been preserved in the archive text. The era of this example is therefore recorded honestly as undetermined, pending examination of the nomenclature and logo style, which would allow the piece to be situated within Stanwell's Danish or post-Danish production periods.
2024-03-15
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-03-15.
2024-03-20
Sold through Etsy for USD 99. 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 99sold 2024-03-20 · 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 685 sales of Stanwell between 2016–2026 — median $69, most falling between $47 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, 2024-03-15. 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.