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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-FK77-UHWF-X
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
No
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 documents a Georg Jensen pipe from the Sunrise line, catalogued as shape number 52, a smooth-finished bent apple of Danish origin fitted with a 9mm filter system. The apple is one of the classic rounded bowl forms of the pipe-making tradition: a squat, spherical chamber softer in profile than the billiard, its walls curving continuously from heel to rim. In its bent configuration, as here, the shank and stem descend in an arc that shifts the bowl forward of the hand and lowers the pipe's centre of gravity when clenched — a geometry long favoured in Danish workshops, where flowing, rounded silhouettes became something of a national signature during the twentieth century. The smooth finish leaves the surface polished rather than carved or blasted, presenting the material's natural figure without texture work. The 9mm filter arrangement places this pipe within the Continental European convention of a widened shank bore accepting a disposable charcoal filter, a system especially common in pipes produced for the German, Danish, and broader northern European markets. Pipes bearing the Georg Jensen name belong to the Danish sphere of production, trading on one of Denmark's most recognised design names, with the Sunrise designation marking a specific line within that output and the numeral 52 identifying the shape within the catalogue. Dating rests on the owner's account alone: no stampings, logos, or date-coded nomenclature were transcribed for this example, and the line does not carry a factory date code that would fix a year of manufacture.
2022-10-29
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-29.
2022-11-20
Sold through eBay for USD 45. 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 45sold 2022-11-20 · 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 179 sales of Georg Jensen between 2015–2026 — median $40, most falling between $28 and $58.
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, 2022-10-29. 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. 6 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.