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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-CV9N-BN6X-B
1970s–1990s
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 pipe from the Maron line, catalogued as shape number 62 and executed in a smooth plateau treatment. In Danish pipe-making vocabulary, a plateau finish denotes the retention of the block's natural outer crust, most often at the rim, so that the raw, craggy surface of the burl contrasts with the polished smooth walls of the bowl below it — a signature of Scandinavian design sensibility that celebrates the material rather than concealing it. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of the Danish pipe. The numbered shape chart, of which 62 is one entry, allowed these designs to be produced consistently across decades, and the shape numbers stamped on the shank remain a primary tool for identifying and studying Stanwell pipes today. Dating this example rests on the owner's stated bracket of the 1970s through the 1990s, a span that falls squarely within Stanwell's Danish manufacturing era, before production was relocated abroad in the early twenty-first century. Stanwell did not employ a factory date-code system in the manner of some English houses, so attribution to a period typically relies on the style of the nomenclature, the logo treatment, and the characteristics of the line in question rather than on an encoded year. Accordingly, the honest era bracket for this piece is recorded as 1970s–1990s, on the owner's statement. As an estate pipe, it entered the record having seen prior use.
2024-05-09
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-05-09.
2024-06-01
Sold through Etsy for USD 145. 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 (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 145sold 2024-06-01 · 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, 2024-05-09. 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.