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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-5P3B-J8EN-Y
2022
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 a Stanwell Pipe of the Year 2022, executed in the tomato shape with a smooth finish and dressed with a silver rim at the bowl. The tomato is one of pipe making's most recognisable rounded forms: a compressed, ball-like bowl broader than it is tall, its equator swelling outward before tucking in toward a comparatively low rim. The silver accent at the rim gives the piece a formal, jewelled emphasis at the crown of the bowl, a treatment Stanwell has favoured on its commemorative and annual editions. Stanwell occupies a central place in Danish pipe history. Many of the great names of Danish pipe design, including Sixten Ivarsson and his circle, contributed shapes to the Stanwell catalogue, making the brand a bridge between artisan studio work and factory production. The Pipe of the Year programme is Stanwell's annual limited edition: each year a single design is issued, produced only during that year and identified with it thereafter. This structure makes dating unusually straightforward compared with most factory pipes, which often carry no date coding at all. Because the edition itself is the date, the designation Pipe of the Year 2022 fixes this example to a single production year without recourse to stamp analysis or stylistic inference. The record accordingly places the pipe firmly in 2022, on the basis of the owner-stated edition identity, and it stands in the archive as a representative of Stanwell's continuing annual-edition tradition in the modern era.
2024-02-23
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-02-23.
2024-05-02
Sold through Etsy for USD 149. 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 149sold 2024-05-02 · 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, 2024-02-23. 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.