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1 photographsArchive Record FUH-PVXY-NV2E-U
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 Svendborg Topsail Valnut smooth billiard, carrying the shape number 402 and documented as a Danish estate pipe. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipemaking canon: a cylindrical bowl set at roughly a right angle to a straight shank, its proportions traditionally calling for a shank length approximately equal to the height of the bowl. Because the form offers no ornamental distraction, it serves as a direct display of a workshop's stummel-shaping discipline and finishing standards, and the smooth finish recorded here belongs to that plain-grain tradition, in which the surface of the wood itself is presented without carving or blast texture. Svendborg is a Danish marque named for the port town of Svendborg on the island of Funen, and its line names characteristically draw on the town's maritime heritage — Topsail among them, a designation taken from square-rig sailing terminology. The brand sits within the broader Danish pipemaking tradition of the twentieth century, a national school that earned international standing through its combination of factory-scale series production and the sculptural freehand movement, and Svendborg's numbered, named lines represent the series side of that tradition, in which a shape chart governs repeatable models such as the 402. Dating this example rests on the brand identification and line designation alone. Danish series pipes of this kind were typically stamped with brand, line, and shape number rather than with any factory date code, so an individual example cannot be assigned to a specific year from its markings; attribution to a period depends instead on catalogue comparison and documented production history for the line.
2023-08-13
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-08-13.
2023-10-08
Sold through Etsy for USD 61. 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 (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 61sold 2023-10-08 · 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 47 sales of Svendborg between 2018–2026 — median $75, most falling between $40 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, 2023-08-13. 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. 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.