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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-GNQG-3AN6-E
1970s–1990s
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 Handmade tobacco pipe carrying the shape number 95, a Danish estate piece attributed by its owner to the period spanning the 1970s through the 1990s. The pipe is fitted with a 9mm filter system, a construction detail strongly associated with pipes made for the German and broader continental European markets, where the 9mm charcoal filter became a near-universal standard in the postwar decades. Stanwell occupies a central position in the history of Danish pipe making. Stanwell is particularly noted for commissioning shape designs from leading Danish carvers, including figures such as Sixten Ivarsson, whose freehand-influenced sensibility helped define the recognisable Danish school of pipe design. The Handmade designation within the Stanwell range marks pipes positioned above the standard factory series, reflecting a greater degree of individual craftsmanship in their finishing. Stanwell identified its shapes by number, and the 95 stamped or catalogued on this example places it within that established shape-numbering system, which allows a given design to be traced across decades of the company's production. Dating Stanwell pipes relies chiefly on the evolution of the firm's stamping styles, logo forms, and line names over time, as the company did not employ a year-specific factory date code. In the present case, the attribution rests on the owner's statement placing the pipe within the 1970s to 1990s window, a period during which Stanwell's Danish production was at its height, before manufacturing was later moved abroad in the twenty-first century. The record therefore carries an honest bracket of 1970s–1990s at owner-stated confidence.
2023-04-15
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-15.
2023-04-17
Sold through Etsy for USD 85. 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 (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 85sold 2023-04-17 · 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, 2023-04-15. 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.