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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-KYPH-TM2U-Y
1948–1970
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 Shape 92 in an ebony finish, a Danish briar pipe representing one of the most historically significant collaborations in twentieth-century pipe making. The form is a slightly bent volcano: a wide, flattened bowl carried on an oval shank and finished with a short stem, proportions calculated for balance in the hand and comfort at the clench. The shape is documented as a smaller interpretation of the celebrated 'Ukulele' design, and its lineage traces directly to Sixten Ivarsson, the Copenhagen master widely regarded as the father of the modern Danish school. Ivarsson developed this shape in the late 1950s, an evolution of a design he had first worked out in 1951, and it embodies the organic, ergonomic principles that distinguished Danish pipe design from the more rigidly classical English tradition of the same period. Dating rests on the stampings. The pipe carries 'Model Depose' together with 'Regd No. 969-48', a registration-number marking associated with Stanwell production between 1948 and 1970. Read alongside the late-1950s origin of the Shape 92 design itself, these marks place the pipe honestly within the 1948–1970 bracket, the era regarded as the heyday of Danish factory pipe making. Recorded dimensions are approximately 5-7/8 inches in length, with a bowl height of 1-1/4 inches, a chamber diameter of 7/8 inch, and a weight of roughly 1.4 ounces — a notably lightweight example consistent with the shape's ergonomic intent.
2025-10-19
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2025-10-19.
2026-01-14
Sold through Etsy for USD 115. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
6 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).
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 2026-01-14 · 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, 2025-10-19. 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. 10 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.