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3 photographsArchive Record FUH-2XVQ-Y2PY-Q
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 Danish pipe represents the Refbjerg Handicraft series, characterized by its compact straight nosewarmer form designated as the 'Profile' shape. The pipe exhibits a smooth finish with classic Danish design elements, featuring a compact bowl and short shank configuration typical of nosewarmer styles that prioritize portability and comfortable clenching. The straight stem continues the pipe's minimalist aesthetic, creating a continuous line from bowl to bit. As an estate piece from a Danish workshop, it reflects the Scandinavian approach to pipe making that emphasizes functional elegance and organic forms. The dating relies solely on the attribution to the Refbjerg brand, without specific factory markings or date codes to provide more precise temporal placement.
2020-03-17
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2020-03-17.
2020-08-03
Sold through eBay for USD 64. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
6 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 (parts.bowl_material 'briar' removed).
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 64sold 2020-08-03 · 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 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, 2020-03-17. 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. 3 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.