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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-7G88-23DF-3
1948–1960s
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 documents a Stanwell Royal Bark, shape 707, executed in the Liverpool form with a sandblast finish. The Liverpool belongs to the straight billiard family, distinguished by an elongated shank that lends the pipe a lean, balanced profile; in Stanwell's numbered shape system, 707 identifies this particular rendering within the catalogue. The Royal Bark designation refers to one of the firm's classic sandblasted lines, in which the surface is blasted to raise the grain into a textured, bark-like relief — a treatment that emphasises the natural growth structure of the wood while producing a lighter, tactile smoking instrument. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of Danish pipe making. Stanwell pipes helped establish the reputation of Danish design in the pipe world during the post-war period, combining factory-scale production with a strong design sensibility. Dating this example rests on its stampings. The pipe carries a Regd.No. mark, a registration stamp that Stanwell applied to its production beginning in 1948 and continued using into the 1960s, after which the nomenclature changed. The presence of this stamp therefore places the pipe within a well-defined window of the company's early post-war output, when Stanwell was consolidating its export markets and its numbered shape system. Read together, the Regd.No. stamp, the Royal Bark line name, and the 707 shape number support an honest era bracket of 1948 to the 1960s, situating this Liverpool among the vintage generation of Danish factory pipes that defined the marque's mid-century identity.
2024-04-12
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-04-12.
2024-04-16
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 2024-04-16 · 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, 2024-04-12. 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.