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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-DUJG-8K28-U
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 Sterling line, executed in the bent apple form and carrying the factory shape number 185. The pipe is fitted with a bent stem and is bored for the 9mm filter system, an arrangement long favoured on the European continent, where the disposable charcoal filter is inserted into an enlarged mortise between shank and stem to temper the smoke. Stanwell occupies a central position in the story of Danish pipemaking. Stanwell is particularly noted for commissioning shape designs from the leading figures of the Danish handmade school, among them Sixten Ivarsson and Tom Eltang, which gave its catalogue a design pedigree unusual for a factory brand and helped disseminate the fluid Danish aesthetic to a mass audience. The company's numbered shape chart, of which 185 is one entry, allowed consistent reproduction of these designs across many finish lines, of which the Sterling series is one. The bent apple itself is a classic form: a rounded, slightly squat bowl derived from the billiard family, its walls curving continuously from heel to rim, paired here with a curved shank-and-stem line that drops the bowl below the bit for a comfortable, jaw-hung carry. Stanwell did not employ a factory date-code system, so precise year attribution depends on stamping styles, logo variants, and the known chronology of its finish lines rather than any encoded mark. The record before us documents the brand, line, shape number, form, and filter system as stated by the owner; on that basis the pipe is catalogued honestly with its era left as an open bracket within Stanwell's long Danish production history.
2022-09-29
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-09-29.
2022-12-04
Sold through eBay for USD 75. No buyer is recorded.
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 (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 75sold 2022-12-04 · 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 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, 2022-09-29. 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.