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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-PV6W-HY32-3
mid-20th century, c. 1948–1970s
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 documents a Stanwell Royal Briar pot, shape number 45, a Danish estate pipe fitted with a 9mm filter system. The pot is one of the classic chart shapes: a comparatively low, wide-walled bowl with a broad chamber, a form prized for the cool, even burn its generous wall thickness encourages and for the way it presents flake and mixture tobaccos alike. The 9mm filter bore in the shank reflects the Continental European preference for filtered smoking that Stanwell served across much of its catalogue. Stanwell occupies a foundational place in Danish pipe history. Established by Poul Nielsen in Kyringe in the years following the Second World War, the firm grew into Denmark's largest pipe manufactory and became the vehicle through which Danish design sensibilities reached an international audience, commissioning shapes from figures such as Sixten Ivarsson and Tom Eltang. The Royal Briar stamping identifies one of the company's named finish lines within its numbered shape system. Dating rests on the registration stamp. The mark 'Regd. Taken together — the Danish origin, the Royal Briar line stamp, the shape 45 pot form, the 9mm filter arrangement, and the registration mark — the pipe stands as a representative document of Stanwell's postwar factory work and of the filtered Danish pot as a type.
2023-04-13
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-13.
2023-04-22
Sold through eBay for USD 100. 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 100sold 2023-04-22 · 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, 2023-04-13. 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.