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1 photographsArchive Record FUH-MVX6-VP3U-2
mid-20th century, registration-number stamping era (pre-mid-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 reference example is a Stanwell Handmade in a smooth finish, carrying the factory shape number 11 and the stamped registration number 696-48. The Handmade designation within Stanwell's output signalled work standing above the standard machine-assisted production lines, and pieces so marked occupy a respected place in the firm's catalogue. Stanwell itself is central to the story of the Danish pipe. Stanwell famously commissioned shape designs from leading Danish carvers, and its numbered shape chart — of which this pipe's 11 is an entry — allowed consistent identification of forms across decades of production. The dating of this example rests on its registration-number stamp. Stanwell used no explicit factory date code, so a registration-number pipe is bracketed by the stamping era rather than pinned to a single year. As an estate piece documented within the Faridunhill Pipe Encyclopedia, it serves as a reference point for the Handmade line's stamping conventions and for the shape-numbered smooth finishes that carried Danish design into the wider pipe world.
2023-08-11
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-08-11.
2023-09-09
Sold through eBay for USD 65. 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 (3 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 65sold 2023-09-09 · 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, 2023-08-11. 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. 1 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.