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1 photographsArchive Record FUH-ADGP-C56U-7
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-finish billiard bearing the Svendborg name, carrying the line designation Topsail Valnut and the shape number 402. The billiard is the foundational form of the classic pipe repertoire: a cylindrical bowl set essentially upright on a shank of roughly matching length, its proportions governed by symmetry and restraint rather than ornament. The smooth finish presented here allows the grain of the stummel to read openly across the bowl and shank, in keeping with the Danish preference for letting the wood itself carry the visual interest of a piece.
Svendborg takes its name from the harbour town on the Danish island of Funen, and the brand belongs to the broader tradition of Danish pipe production that flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, when Denmark became one of the most influential centres of pipe design in the world. The nautical flavour of the line name Topsail sits naturally within that maritime heritage, while Valnut points to a walnut-toned stain treatment within the series. The presence of a shape number, 402, indicates a catalogued factory shape rather than a one-off freehand, situating this pipe within a repeatable production series.
Dating rests on the stampings and the owner's identification of the pipe as a Danish estate piece. Svendborg pipes do not carry a factory date-coding system of the kind used by houses such as Dunhill, so a year of manufacture cannot be fixed from the nomenclature alone. The combination of brand, line name, and numbered shape is consistent with the era of organised Danish factory production, and a later twentieth-century origin is plausible on that basis, but absent corroborating documentation the era is best recorded as undetermined. The pipe stands in the archive as a representative example of a Danish smooth billiard from the Svendborg workshop's numbered shape range.
2023-07-28
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-28.
2023-10-08
Sold through Etsy for USD 61. 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 'undetermined, later twentieth ce' -> undetermined).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 61sold 2023-10-08 · 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 47 sales of Svendborg between 2018–2026 — median $75, most falling between $40 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, 2023-07-28. 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. 1 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.