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7 photographsArchive Record FUH-MJCD-DJ48-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 Nording Signature freehand from Denmark, worked in a semi-rusticated finish and crowned with a plateau rim. The freehand form is the defining vocabulary of the Danish school: rather than turning the stummel to a catalogue shape, the carver follows the grain and natural contours of the block, allowing each pipe to assume its own silhouette. The plateau top — the rough, craggy outer crust of the burl left intact along the bowl rim — is a hallmark of this approach, presenting the raw texture of the wood as a deliberate design element against the shaped body below. The semi-rustic treatment recorded here indicates a surface that combines carved or textured rustication with areas of smoother finish, a mixed-texture style common in Danish freehand work. Larsen. His workshop grew into one of Denmark's most productive, issuing pipes across a broad range of grades and lines. The Signature designation identifies a line within the Nording catalogue positioned among the maker's named series of freehand production. Dating a Nording is a matter of context rather than code: the workshop has never employed a factory date-stamping system of the kind used by houses such as Dunhill, so no year can be read directly from the nomenclature. Attribution here rests on the owner's identification of the brand, line, and form. Given the long production span of the Signature freehands, the honest bracket for this example is the late twentieth to early twenty-first century, with no narrower window supportable from the record as it stands.
2022-10-20
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-20.
2022-10-21
Sold through eBay for USD 68. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 'Late 20th to early 21st century' -> undetermined; 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 68sold 2022-10-21 · 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 Nording between 2017–2026 — median $79, most falling between $39 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, 2022-10-20. 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. 7 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.