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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-M9DP-N9DT-Q
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 entry documents a Stanwell Silhouette in a smooth finish, carrying the factory shape number 71, attributed to the 1970s. It is a Danish estate pipe, meaning it has passed through prior ownership and use before entering the record. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of the Danish pipe industry. Stanwell's enduring reputation rests on its practice of commissioning shape designs from leading Danish carvers, among them figures such as Sixten Ivarsson, whose freehand-influenced sensibility helped define the modern Danish school. The factory's numbered shape chart allowed these designs to be produced in series at accessible prices, spreading the Danish aesthetic to a worldwide audience. The Silhouette designation identifies one of the company's named finish lines, here executed in smooth , with the shape 71 stamp tying the piece to a specific entry in the Stanwell shape catalogue. Dating for this example rests on the owner's attribution to the 1970s. Stanwell did not employ a systematic factory date code, so era placement for the marque typically depends on the style of the stampings, the crowned-S logo treatment on the stem, the country-of-origin wording, and the presence of a shape number — details that evolved across the company's production history and are read together rather than from any single mark. Within that interpretive framework, the stated 1970s bracket situates the pipe in the period when Stanwell's designer-driven shape programme was at its height and Danish pipes commanded broad international attention. The record accordingly stands at an owner-stated 1970s attribution.
2022-12-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-12-21.
2023-04-02
Sold through eBay for USD 66. 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 (1 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 66sold 2023-04-02 · 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, 2022-12-21. 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.