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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-D5DR-3MM9-X
post-2010
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 pot from the Danish Design Black Diamond series, carrying shape number 11 and finished smooth. The pot is one of the enduring standards of the pipe-shape vocabulary: a squat, wide-set bowl with a low profile and generous chamber diameter relative to its height, a geometry long favoured for the even, cool burn its broad tobacco bed encourages. Stanwell's numbered shape chart, in which each design carries a fixed catalogue number, allows the same form to appear across the firm's many finish series, and the number 11 identifies this pot within that system. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of Danish pipe making. Over the decades Stanwell commissioned shapes from many of Denmark's most celebrated designers, and its catalogues served as an accessible expression of the Danish school that otherwise flourished chiefly in high-grade handmade work. The Black Diamond series belongs to the brand's modern era of named finish lines, each pairing the established shape chart with a distinct surface treatment; here the treatment is a smooth finish, presenting the 's grain openly. Dating rests on the owner's attribution of the piece to the period after 2010, a meaningful dividing line in the brand's history: Stanwell's Danish factory in Borup ceased production around that year, after which manufacture of the marque continued abroad under its parent company. The attribution therefore situates this example within the brand's contemporary chapter, and the record adopts an honest bracket of post-2010 on that owner-stated basis.
2022-12-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-01.
2023-02-06
Sold through Etsy for USD 78. 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 (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 78sold 2023-02-06 · 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, 2022-12-01. 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. 7 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.