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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-5Q3Y-8MPP-M
1970s–1990s
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 archive record documents a Danish estate pipe from Stanwell, catalogued as a Royal Guard in the factory's shape 95, fitted with a 9mm filter system and attributed by its owner to the period spanning the 1970s through the 1990s. The 9mm filter mortise is itself an informative construction detail: Stanwell, like many Continental makers, produced a substantial portion of its output to accept the standardised 9mm charcoal filter favoured in the German and broader European markets, and pipes so configured were frequently designated for export or domestic Continental sale rather than the Anglo-American trade, where unfiltered smoking predominated. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of Danish pipe making. The company commissioned shape designs from the leading figures of the Danish school, including Sixten Ivarsson, Tom Eltang, and Jess Chonowitsch, giving its numbered shape chart an unusually distinguished pedigree. The Royal Guard designation belongs to Stanwell's system of named finish lines, each name denoting a particular treatment of the applied across the common shape chart, with the shape number — here 95 — identifying the physical form itself. Dating a Stanwell of this period rests on indirect evidence rather than a factory date code, which the firm did not employ. Attribution therefore proceeds from the interplay of line name, stamping style, shape number, and configuration details such as the filter bore, read against the company's evolving catalogues. On that basis, and on the owner's stated attribution, the piece is assigned to Stanwell's Danish production of the 1970s to 1990s, before the firm's manufacturing moved abroad in the following decade.
2023-04-07
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-07.
2023-04-08
Sold through Etsy 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 (1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 75sold 2023-04-08 · 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, 2023-04-07. 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. 7 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.