Loading
Loading
8 photographsArchive Record FUH-CNPE-BXHF-Q
circa 1948 to early 1970s (Reg. No. 969-48 stamping period)
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 documents a Stanwell Royal Bark in the Chimney shape, carrying the factory shape number 685 G and the registration stamp Reg. No. 969-48. Stanwell stands among the foundational names of Danish pipe making. The Royal Bark designation identifies one of Stanwell's textured finish lines, in which the stummel's surface is worked into a deeply craggy, bark-like relief that contrasts with the firm's smooth-finished grades. The Chimney shape itself is defined by its distinctive proportions: a notably tall, cylindrical bowl whose elongated chamber gives the form its name, prized for the deep tobacco column it accommodates. The dating of this example rests principally on the Reg. No. 969-48 stamp. The pipe is recorded here as a Danish estate example, and its value to the archive lies in preserving the conjunction of shape number, finish line, and registration stamp as a dating benchmark for other Stanwell pipes of the same period.
2022-09-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-09-22.
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 (3 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.
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, 2022-09-22. 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. 8 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.