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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-N6F7-D9M5-G
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 is a Danish pipe attributed to the Nording workshop and identified within its Eriksen Keystone line, fitted with a black stem and documented as an estate piece with prior smoking history. The record preserves it as an illustration of the sub-branded production that flowed from one of Denmark's most prolific pipemaking houses. The Eriksen name belongs to the family of secondary lines associated with the Nording operation, a common practice among Danish makers of the period, in which pipes were stamped under allied marks to distinguish grades, finishes, or distribution channels from the primary brand. Keystone identifies the specific series within that framework, and pipes so marked reflect the workshop's characteristic Danish handling of line and proportion filtered through a production-line format. The black stem is the fitting recorded for this example, a treatment consistent with the dark mouthpieces standard across Scandinavian factory and workshop pipes of the era. On the evidence carried in this record — an owner attribution to the Nording workshop and its Eriksen Keystone line — the pipe is placed within that workshop's production without a narrower bracket, and the era is entered as undetermined pending closer study of its nomenclature.
2022-10-17
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-17.
2022-10-19
Sold through eBay for USD 26. 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 (2 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 26sold 2022-10-19 · 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, 2022-10-17. 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. 9 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.