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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-2JRM-VXMK-T
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 Stanwell Danske Club billiard, shape number 124, finished smooth and drilled to accept a 9mm filter. The billiard is the foundational form of the pipe-maker's repertoire: a cylindrical bowl set at a right angle or gentle cant to a shank of roughly equal length, prized for its balance and for the way an even wall thickness rewards clean engineering. A smooth finish, as here, leaves the surface of the stummel polished rather than carved or blasted, allowing the natural figure of the wood to show. Stanwell occupies a central place in Danish pipe history. The Danske Club designation belongs to the company's filter-oriented production, built around the 9mm system favoured on the European continent, in which a disposable filter — typically activated charcoal — seats in an enlarged mortise between shank and stem. Dating a Stanwell of this type rests on general markers rather than a factory date code, which the firm did not employ. The source record for this example preserves the line, shape number, finish, and filter system, but no stamping transcription on which such an analysis could be built; the era of manufacture is therefore recorded honestly as undetermined within Stanwell's long postwar production history.
2023-02-20
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-02-20.
2023-02-20
Sold through eBay for USD 75. 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 75sold 2023-02-20 · 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 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, 2023-02-20. 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.