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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-9CME-JY66-4
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 Danish estate pipe carrying the SAILOR marque, presented in a sandblasted finish and cut to an acorn bowl with an oval shank. The acorn is one of the classic tapering forms of the pipe maker's repertoire: the bowl narrows from a broad rim toward a pointed heel, giving a conical profile that lends itself well to sandblasting, where the abraded surface follows the grain rings around the taper. The oval shank is a hallmark of Danish design sensibility, softening the transition from bowl to stem and giving the pipe a flattened, hand-friendly cross-section rather than the strictly round shank of English convention. SAILOR belongs to this family of Stanwell-made marques: pipes turned to the factory's standards but stamped under an alternative name, a common practice that allowed the firm to serve different price points and distributors without diluting its principal brand. Dating a pipe of this kind rests on attribution rather than factory codes. Stanwell's sub-brands did not carry systematic date stamps, so the marque itself, together with the estate provenance, is the working evidence. On that basis the pipe can only be honestly bracketed within the twentieth-century span of Stanwell's operation as a maker of stamped sub-brand lines. As a document, the pipe illustrates two threads of Danish pipe history at once: the sculptural acorn form as interpreted through a sandblasted surface, and the industrial reality of a great factory producing quality under many names.
2022-10-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-22.
2023-03-13
Sold through Etsy for USD 65. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 '20th century; 1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 65sold 2023-03-13 · 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 5 sales of SAILOR between 2020–2026 — median $65, most falling between $25 and $75.
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, 2022-10-22. 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.