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3 photographsArchive Record FUH-J3F9-Y2B6-3
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 VARIO in the egg form, catalogued under shape number 135, finished in a sandblast and fitted with the 9mm filter system that defines the VARIO line. The egg is one of the classic bowl silhouettes of the pipe-making repertoire: an ovoid chamber that tapers gently toward the rim, softer and more rounded than the billiard, typically paired with a shank and stem that continue the flowing line of the bowl. The sandblast treatment strips away the softer grain of the wood to expose the harder ring structure beneath, producing a tactile, relief-textured surface that also lightens the pipe in the hand. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of Danish pipe making. The VARIO designation marks the maker's filtered series, built around the 9mm filter standard common in the Continental European market; the term signals that the pipe accepts a 9mm insert in the shank. Dating a Stanwell rests on stamping style, logo form, and line nomenclature rather than a factory date code, since the company did not employ one. On the evidence carried in this record — the owner's attribution as a Danish estate piece, the VARIO line name, and shape 135 — the era of manufacture remains honestly undetermined within Stanwell's long production history, and the record is preserved on that basis.
2023-07-06
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-06.
2023-07-13
Sold through eBay for USD 95. 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 95sold 2023-07-13 · 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, 2023-07-06. 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. 3 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.