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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-NYTD-9RFP-W
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 is a straight billiard of smooth finish, recorded under the Georg Jensen name in the marque's VIRGIN line and identified by its owner as a Danish estate piece. The billiard is the foundational shape of the classical pipe canon: a cylindrical bowl set roughly perpendicular to a shank of comparable length, joined to a straight stem in a single uninterrupted line. Because of its geometric clarity, the billiard has long served as the benchmark against which a workshop's proportions and drilling discipline are judged, and Danish makers of the twentieth century produced it in great numbers alongside the freehand forms for which the country became famous. The line designation VIRGIN follows a convention widespread in pipe nomenclature, in which the term signals a natural presentation of the rather than a heavily stained or rusticated treatment, letting the wood's own figure carry the aesthetic weight; the smooth surface of this example is consistent with that convention. Dating rests entirely on the owner's identification, as the marque did not employ a systematic factory date code of the kind found on certain English houses, and pipes of this type are therefore bracketed by context rather than by stamp. On the evidence available, the piece is placed within twentieth-century Danish production, with the precise decade left undetermined. As an archive entry, it stands as a representative illustration of the Danish smooth billiard: an exercise in proportion and restraint, documenting how a national school interpreted the most universal shape in pipedom.
2023-01-16
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-01-16.
2023-10-14
Sold through Etsy for USD 44. 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 (era 'undetermined; Danish estate prod' -> undetermined).
2026-08-28
Honesty pass: statements the source does not support were removed (2 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 44sold 2023-10-14 · Etsy
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 179 sales of Georg Jensen between 2015–2026 — median $40, most falling between $28 and $58.
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, 2023-01-16. 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. 10 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.