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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-8HC3-UHA2-K
Era 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 smooth-finished Canadian from the Georg Jensen marque, stamped as part of the Handmade in Denmark line and bearing the shape number 08. The Canadian is one of the classic straight shapes in the pipe-making canon, defined by a long, oval-section shank that occupies the greater part of the pipe's length, paired with a comparatively short stem and, conventionally, a cylindrical bowl. The extended shank is functional as well as aesthetic: it lengthens the smoke channel within the itself, a quality long prized by devotees of the shape, and it demands a substantial, well-oriented block of wood, since the shank and bowl are cut as one piece. Rendering the shape with a smooth finish, as here, places the natural grain of the wood on open display along the shank's broad flanks. The 'Handmade in Denmark' stamping situates this piece within that national school and within the marque's handmade output, while the numeral 08 identifies the factory's designated shape within its catalogue. Dating rests on the nomenclature alone. Danish pipe houses of this type did not employ systematic factory date codes, so the stampings — brand name, country-of-origin line, and shape number — establish origin and lineage rather than a precise year of manufacture. Taken together, the marque and the style of stamping support a general placement in the mid-to-late twentieth century, and the record therefore carries an honest, undetermined bracket within that span rather than a specific date.
2023-05-06
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-05-06.
2024-02-14
Sold through Etsy 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).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (era 'mid-to-late 20th century).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (2 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 55sold 2024-02-14 · 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 179 sales of Georg Jensen between 2015–2026 — median $40, most falling between $28 and $58.
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, 2023-05-06. 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.