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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-GF2T-NUP8-A
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 Svendborg smooth straight pot of the maker's Danish Hand Cut line, carrying the letter grade D and described in its documentation by the model name Fatboy — a designation apt to the pot form at its most generously proportioned. The pot is one of the classic chart shapes: a squat, wide bowl of low height relative to its diameter, giving a broad chamber in a compact profile. Rendered in the ample Fatboy interpretation and paired with a straight shank and stem, the shape reads as sturdy and horizontal, a design that favours a wide tobacco chamber without the vertical mass of a billiard or Dublin. The Danish Hand Cut stamping situates this piece within that tradition of individually worked, rather than fully machine-turned, production, and the letter grade reflects the Danish habit of ranking hand-cut pipes by the quality of the block and finish — here recorded as grade D within the maker's own scale. Dating the pipe proceeds from the stampings alone. The nomenclature — Svendborg over the Danish Hand Cut line name with its letter grade — confirms origin and production tier, but Danish workshop pipes of this kind were not stamped with factory date codes, so no single year can be fixed from the marks themselves. On the strength of the brand's active period and the character of the stamping, the piece is bracketed honestly to the later twentieth century, with the precise year left undetermined.
2023-04-06
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-06.
2023-10-14
Sold through Etsy for USD 104. 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 'later 20th century).
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 104sold 2023-10-14 · 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 47 sales of Svendborg between 2018–2026 — median $75, most falling between $40 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, 2023-04-06. 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. 8 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.