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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-39J2-K8GU-C
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 Danish estate pipe identified by its owner as a Kolding, a marque associated with production in Denmark and sharing its name with the historic Jutland town. The pipe takes the bent acorn form, a shape defined by a bowl that tapers downward toward its heel in the manner of an acorn's cap-to-point profile, joined to a curved shank and stem that drop the bowl below the line of the bit. The bent acorn is a classic silhouette in the European canon, and Danish workshops of the twentieth century frequently rendered it with the softened, organic transitions that came to characterise the Danish school more broadly, a tradition shaped by figures such as Sixten Ivarsson and carried through both artisan benches and factory lines.
The finish here is a partial sandblast, a treatment in which portions of the stummel are blasted to raise the grain in relief while other surfaces are left smooth. This mixed presentation allows the ring grain and texture of the blasted areas to play against polished panels, a device Danish and German makers used both decoratively and to work around surface features of the block.
The pipe is built to accept a 9mm filter, the standard disposable charcoal filter format dominant in the German and broader Continental market. A 9mm airway requires a widened mortise and a stem bored to seat the filter tube, and its presence generally signals a pipe made with Central and Northern European smokers in mind.
Dating rests on the owner's identification of the piece as Danish estate production. The Kolding stamp does not carry a factory date-coding system of the kind used by houses such as Dunhill, so no year-specific attribution can be drawn from the nomenclature alone. The honest conclusion is a Danish pipe of undetermined era, recorded here as a shape and finish reference within the Danish estates group.
2023-01-25
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-25.
2023-04-13
Sold through eBay for USD 55. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 55sold 2023-04-13 · 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, 2023-01-25. 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. 9 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.