Loading
Loading
7 photographsArchive Record FUH-H6GG-4GDU-P
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 Royal Bark, a straight pipe finished in the line's characteristic sandblast. The Royal Bark designation belongs to Stanwell's family of textured finishes, in which the surface of the stummel is blasted to reveal the natural grain pattern in relief, producing the craggy, bark-like texture from which the line takes its name. The straight configuration presented here places bowl, shank, and stem along a single axis, the most fundamental arrangement in pipe architecture and one that provides an unobstructed airway from chamber to bit. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of Danish pipe making. Through this practice Stanwell brought the aesthetics of high-grade Danish handmade work to factory production, and its catalogue helped define the modern Danish school for smokers worldwide. Dating a Stanwell relies chiefly on nomenclature study, since the firm did not employ a systematic factory date code. For this example, no stampings have been transcribed into the record, so no such analysis can be applied; the piece entered the archive as a Danish estate example, and its production era is accordingly left as an open bracket. It stands in the encyclopedia as a representative of the Royal Bark sandblast treatment and of Stanwell's straight-shaped output.
2023-03-04
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-04.
2023-03-05
Sold through eBay for USD 65. 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 (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 65sold 2023-03-05 · 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, 2023-03-04. 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. 7 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.