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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-EX4W-QEHC-J
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 Silk Brun in the maker's shape 186, a smooth-finished bent egg. The egg is one of the classic ovoid bowl forms of the pipe repertoire: a chamber tapering gently from a rounded base toward a softer, narrower rim, here paired with a bent stem that lowers the bowl in the hand and eases the weight on the jaw. The Silk Brun line presents Stanwell's in a smooth brown stain, a treatment intended to display the grain of the wood rather than conceal it under blast or rustication. Stanwell occupies a central position in twentieth-century Danish pipemaking. Its numbered shape chart is a document of that history: many of the factory's shapes were contributed by celebrated Danish designers, and the numbers — such as the 186 seen here — allow a given form to be traced across decades of catalogues and finish lines. Dating a Stanwell proceeds differently from dating an English marque with hallmarked silver or a factory date code, because Stanwell used none. Instead, the archivist reads the combination of line name, shape number, stamping layout, and country-of-origin mark. This example was catalogued by its owner among Danish estates, placing it, on that owner-stated basis, within the Danish production period — an honest bracket rather than a precise year, which is as far as the evidence responsibly reaches.
2024-03-06
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-03-06.
2024-03-11
Sold through Etsy for USD 110. 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 (era 'Danish production era; 2 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 110sold 2024-03-11 · 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, 2024-03-06. 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.