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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-KCPM-WX32-6
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 DANMORE pipe of Danish origin, catalogued under shape number 32: a smooth-finished, slightly bent apple. The apple is among the most enduring of the classic bowl forms — a rounded, gently swelling chamber profile, broader through the middle than the billiard and softer in silhouette, tapering back toward the shank. In its slightly bent configuration, as here, the stem drops modestly below the horizontal line of the shank, shifting the bowl's weight downward and giving the pipe a relaxed, forward-tilting posture without the pronounced curve of a full bent. The smooth finish leaves the surface of the stummel polished and uninterrupted, presenting the material plainly rather than through rustication or sandblasting.
DANMORE belongs to the broad field of Danish factory and workshop pipemaking, a national tradition that rose to international prominence in the mid-twentieth century, when Denmark became one of the most influential centres of pipe design in the world. While the celebrated Danish names are associated with sculptural freehand work, the wider Danish trade also produced conventionally shaped pipes in numbered series — as the 32 stamp on this example indicates — organising production around a fixed shape chart in the manner of the larger European factories.
Dating rests on the markings themselves. The pipe carries the DANMORE brand stamp together with the shape number 32, and its identification as a Danish estate piece comes from the owner's attribution. Brands of this kind did not employ factory date codes, so no year-specific reading can be taken from the nomenclature alone; the stampings establish maker and shape but not a production date. The record accordingly assigns no closer era than undetermined, with the Danish attribution held at owner-stated confidence until corroborated against period catalogues or comparable stamped examples.
2022-12-10
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-10.
2023-03-16
Sold through Etsy for USD 42. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 42sold 2023-03-16 · 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 18 sales of DANMORE between 2018–2024 — median $40, most falling between $26 and $59.
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, 2022-12-10. 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. 6 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.