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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-3GDF-9GPA-4
post-2010
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 Royal Rouge in the pot shape, catalogued as shape number 11, finished smooth and fitted for the 9mm filter system. The pot is one of the enduring standards of the pipe-shape lexicon: a short, wide, cylindrical bowl of generous chamber diameter relative to its height, typically set on a stout shank. The proportions favour a broad tobacco surface and a compact profile, and the form has long been a fixture of factory shape charts across Europe. The 9mm filter arrangement, in which the mortise is bored to accept a standard charcoal or paper filter cartridge seated between stem and shank, reflects a convention especially widespread in continental European production. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of Danish pipe making. The Royal Rouge designation identifies one of Stanwell's named finish series, here presented in a smooth dress that displays the grain of the stummel. Dating this example rests on the owner's statement placing it after 2010, a meaningful dividing line in the brand's history: in 2010 Stanwell ceased manufacturing in Denmark and production was transferred to Italy, while the Danish shape catalogue and design identity were retained. Stanwell pipes do not carry a factory date code, so period attribution for the marque generally depends on nomenclature style, series identification, and documented company history rather than stamped year marks. Taken together, the stated series, shape number, and owner attribution support an honest era bracket of post-2010 production.
2024-04-08
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-04-08.
2024-08-28
Sold through Etsy for USD 95. 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 95sold 2024-08-28 · 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, 2024-04-08. 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.