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4 photographsArchive Record FUH-E6CA-9N6R-2
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 smooth billiard in briar, catalogued under the factory's shape number 17 and belonging to the Royal Briar line. The billiard is the foundational form of the classic pipe repertoire: a cylindrical bowl of roughly equal height and shank length, set on a straight axis, prized as the benchmark against which a maker's proportions and drilling discipline are judged. Rendered in a smooth finish, the form places the emphasis entirely on the briar's grain and the balance of bowl to shank. Stanwell occupies a central position in Danish pipe history. Stanwell is particularly noted for its numbered shape chart and for commissioning designs from leading Danish carvers, including Sixten Ivarsson and Tom Eltang, which helped translate the Danish handmade aesthetic into serial production. The Royal Briar stamping identifies one of the factory's named finish lines applied across its standard shape range. Dating a Stanwell relies on stamping analysis rather than a date code, since the factory never employed one. Students of the marque examine the style of the crowned-S logo, the wording and arrangement of line and country stamps, and the shape number itself against known catalogue periods. On the evidence recorded here — Danish origin and the Royal Briar line — this example is bracketed broadly within Stanwell's Danish production era, with no narrower date established from the documented stampings.
2022-10-11
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-11.
2023-01-26
Sold through eBay for USD 70. 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 (era 'Undetermined; consistent with St' -> undetermined; 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 70sold 2023-01-26 · 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, 2022-10-11. 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. 4 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.