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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-B92H-A7FK-5
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 Stanwell of the Buffalo series, finished in sandblast and carrying the factory shape number 30. The sandblast treatment, in which the softer summer growth of the is blasted away to leave the harder grain structure standing in relief, gives such pipes a tactile, ring-grained surface while reducing weight — a finish Stanwell applied across many of its named series alongside smooth counterparts. The Buffalo designation identifies one of the firm's named production lines, each of which paired a distinctive finish or staining scheme with the company's standard shape catalogue. Stanwell occupies a central place in Danish pipe history. Its enduring importance lies in its shape chart: Stanwell commissioned designs from leading Danish carvers, among them Sixten Ivarsson and Tom Eltang, and assigned each a number, bringing high-design Danish shapes to factory production at accessible levels. The number 30 stamped on this pipe refers to that system, tying the piece to a specific catalogued profile rather than to a one-off design. Dating a Stanwell rests on nomenclature rather than a date code, for the factory never employed one. Described in the source simply as a Danish estate, this Buffalo is best bracketed within Stanwell's Danish production era, with the precise decade left undetermined pending closer study of its stampings.
2024-03-18
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-03-18.
2024-04-18
Sold through Etsy for USD 110. 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; consistent with St' -> undetermined; 2 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 110sold 2024-04-18 · 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, 2024-03-18. 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.