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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-PVHV-PAPH-G
Danmore Cherry 131 Smooth Straight Volcano, Danish Estate, Era Undetermined
undetermined
Dating: Owner-statedDenmark6 photographs
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.
Attribute checklist
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.
The entry
This reference example is a Danmore Cherry, shape number 131, executed as a smooth, straight volcano and recorded as a Danish estate pipe. The volcano is one of the signature forms of Danish pipe design: a bowl whose broad base tapers upward toward a narrower rim, evoking the cone of its namesake. It is a shape closely identified with the mid-twentieth-century Danish design movement, which favoured sculptural, organic silhouettes over the rigid geometry of classic English catalogue shapes. Rendered here as a straight pipe with a smooth finish, the form presents the conical bowl in its most legible profile, with the grain of the wood left visible rather than obscured by rustication or sandblasting. Danmore belongs to the broad tier of Danish factory and workshop production that flourished as Danish pipes gained international standing in the postwar decades. Such marques typically identified their pipes with a brand stamp, a line name, and a numeric shape code; on this example the owner records the line as Cherry alongside the shape number 131, a system consistent with Danish production practice, where the number denotes a repeatable catalogue shape rather than a one-off freehand. Dating rests entirely on the stampings and the owner's description of the piece as a Danish estate pipe. Like most Danish factory marques, Danmore did not employ a systematic factory date code of the kind used by houses such as Dunhill, so the nomenclature identifies the model but does not fix a year of manufacture.