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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-KTU3-M4MM-M
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 documents a bent billiard from Svendborg, a Danish pipe marque that takes its name from the port town of Svendborg on the island of Funen. The house belongs to the broader tradition of Danish factory and workshop pipemaking that flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, when Denmark became internationally recognised for pipes that balanced classical English shape vocabulary with Scandinavian sensibilities in line and finish. Within the Svendborg range, the Baltic designation identifies a smooth-finished series, and this example carries the shape number 507, placing it within the maker's numbered shape system as a bent billiard.
The billiard is the foundational shape of the classical pipe canon: a cylindrical bowl of roughly equal height and shank length, here executed in its bent configuration, in which the shank and stem curve downward and back toward the smoker. The bend shifts the bowl's weight closer to the jaw, a geometry long favoured for comfortable clenching, and gives the profile a relaxed sweep that Danish workshops often rendered with particular grace. The smooth finish of the Baltic treatment leaves the surface polished rather than carved or blasted, presenting the material plainly.
Dating rests on the identification supplied with the pipe rather than on any factory date-coding, as Svendborg, like most Danish makers, did not employ a year-stamp system comparable to those used by certain English houses. The attribution to brand, line, and shape number derives from the owner's cataloguing of the piece among Danish estate pipes. On that basis the record assigns an honest, open bracket: the pipe is consistent with Svendborg's production of the late twentieth to early twenty-first century, and it is preserved here as a documented instance of the marque's Baltic smooth bent billiard, shape 507.
2023-03-31
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-03-31.
2023-10-19
Sold through eBay for USD 115. 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 'Undetermined; consistent with Sv' -> undetermined).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 115sold 2023-10-19 · 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 47 sales of Svendborg between 2018–2026 — median $75, most falling between $40 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, 2023-03-31. 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.