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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-KFKW-FYJJ-6
post-1948, registration-stamp era (approximately late 1940s to early 1970s)
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 Stanwell pipe from the firm's Handmade line, bearing the factory shape number 11 and the registration stamp Regd. No. 696-48. As a Danish estate piece, it documents one of the most influential production houses in twentieth-century pipe making. The firm holds a distinctive position in pipe history as the bridge between Danish artisan design and factory production: from the post-war decades onward, Stanwell commissioned shape designs from leading Danish carvers — Sixten Ivarsson chief among them — and translated their freehand-influenced aesthetics into a numbered catalogue of serially produced shapes. The stamped shape number, here 11, identifies the pipe within that catalogue system, which allowed a single design to be reproduced consistently across finishes and lines. The Handmade designation marks the pipe within Stanwell's hierarchy of line names, which the company used to distinguish grades and finish treatments across its output. The most instructive stamp for dating is the registration number. The smooth finish presents the era Danish idiom in its plainest form, letting the stamped nomenclature — brand, line, shape number, and registration mark — carry the documentary weight of the piece. Together these stamps make the pipe a compact lesson in reading mid-century Stanwell nomenclature.
2023-05-13
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-05-13.
2023-09-09
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 (3 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 65sold 2023-09-09 · 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, 2023-05-13. 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. 8 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.