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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-HM47-652R-3
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 documents a Stanwell Royal Guard shape 161, a smooth-finished bent bulldog fitted with a 9mm filter system, a configuration long associated with the Danish and German markets where filtered smoking has been the prevailing convention. The bulldog is among the most recognisable forms in the pipe-making canon: a bowl composed of two opposed cones meeting at a beaded waistline, traditionally paired with a diamond-section shank. In its bent rendering, as here, the shape takes on a more compact, pocketable posture while retaining the crisp geometric discipline that defines the family. The smooth finish presents the grain openly rather than concealing it beneath rustication or sandblast. The Royal Guard designation belongs to Stanwell's named-line system, by which the factory distinguished finish and grade tiers across its numbered shape chart; the number 161 identifies the shape itself within that chart, a system that allows the same form to be traced across multiple Stanwell lines and decades. Dating Stanwell pipes rests chiefly on the evolution of the factory's stampings, logos, and line names over time rather than on any explicit date code, and such evidence typically yields a bracket rather than a single year. For this example the era is recorded on the owner's statement as the 1970s to the 1990s, a span consistent with the mature period of Stanwell's named-line production. The pipe is preserved in the archive as an estate example, documented as a representative of the Danish factory bent bulldog in its filtered configuration.
2022-09-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-09-22.
2022-10-07
Sold through Etsy for USD 75. 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).
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 75sold 2022-10-07 · 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, 2022-09-22. 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. 9 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.