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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-HJD6-U6Y9-Y
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 smooth-finished straight billiard bearing the shape number 03, produced under the Royal Danish name — a line manufactured by Stanwell of Denmark. Stanwell itself occupies a central place in twentieth-century pipe history. Royal Danish operated as one of Stanwell's secondary lines, offering pipes made in the same Danish workshops and often from the same shape charts, stamped with numbers that correspond to the parent factory's catalogue. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe-making canon: a cylindrical bowl set essentially upright on a straight shank of roughly equal length, with clean, unornamented lines that expose the quality of the and the discipline of the drilling. A smooth finish, as here, is the classic treatment for the form, allowing the grain of the wood to read without interruption. Shape 03 places this example within the maker's numbered shape system. Dating a Royal Danish pipe is a matter of bracketing rather than pinpointing. Neither Stanwell nor its sub-brands used a factory date code, so no stamping yields a year of manufacture. On that basis the pipe is honestly assigned to the mid-to-late twentieth century, with the attribution resting on the owner's identification of the line.
2024-04-14
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-04-14.
2024-06-04
Sold through Etsy for USD 49. 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 'Mid-to-late 20th century, Danish' -> undetermined; 2 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 49sold 2024-06-04 · 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 267 sales of Royal Danish between 2016–2026 — median $63, most falling between $33 and $100.
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, 2024-04-14. 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.