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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-ANC9-AYCN-E
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 bent chimney pipe attributed to the Prince AMLED Art Line of Denmark, carried in the maker's numbering system as shape 3170 and finished in sandblast. The chimney is among the more architecturally distinctive of the classic chart shapes: a tall, narrow cylindrical bowl whose extended walls give the tobacco chamber unusual depth relative to its diameter, a geometry traditionally associated with a cool, slow-developing smoke. Here the form is executed with a bent shank and stem, lowering the bowl's hang in the mouth and lending the tall bowl a more relaxed profile than its straight-shanked counterparts. The sandblast treatment excavates the softer growth rings of the wood to leave the harder grain standing in relief, producing a tactile, craggy surface that also lightens the pipe in the hand.
The pipe belongs to the Danish tradition, a school whose factory and workshop production earned international standing in the second half of the twentieth century through an emphasis on grain-led shaping and honest, texture-forward finishes — a design language with which a sandblasted, serially numbered Art Line piece is entirely consistent. The presence of a shape number indicates production within an organised model range rather than one-off freehand carving.
Attribution of brand, line, and shape rests on the owner's identification of the piece as a Danish estate pipe. As an estate example, it entered the record after a period of use by a previous owner. On the evidence available, the era of manufacture is best left as an open bracket within the broader span of modern Danish serial production, pending corroboration from stampings or documented company records.
2022-12-27
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-27.
2023-01-12
Sold through eBay for USD 60. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 60sold 2023-01-12 · eBay
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 157 sales of Prince AMLED between 2016–2026 — median $49, most falling between $23 and $110.
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, 2022-12-27. 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. 10 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.