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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-M7VK-GC25-8
Stanwell Danish Reserve 164 Smooth Bent Trio, era undetermined
undetermined
Dating: Owner-statedDenmark7 photographs
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.
Attribute checklist
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.
The entry
This reference example is a Stanwell Danish Reserve pipe in the factory's shape 164, a smooth-finished bent design recorded as part of a Danish estate grouping described as a trio. The bent configuration places the bowl below the smoker's line of sight and shifts weight toward the hand, a profile long associated with Danish factory production, where comfortable, well-balanced bents formed a core part of the catalogue. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of Danish pipe making. The company's numbered shape chart became a common language for Danish factory forms, and the presence of the number 164 on this example ties it directly to that system. The Danish Reserve line sits within Stanwell's broader family of named series, each distinguished by finish treatment and stamping rather than by structural differences. Dating a Stanwell requires explanation, because the factory never employed a date-coding system of the kind used by houses such as Dunhill. Danish manufacture itself provides an outer boundary, since Stanwell production was relocated from Denmark after the Borup factory closed in the twenty-first century. On the evidence preserved here — the line name, the shape number, and the Danish estate origin — the pipe can be securely identified as a Stanwell Danish Reserve 164, while its precise period of manufacture remains an open question, and the era is therefore entered as undetermined.