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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-QAGR-Y2YG-8
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 Stanwell egg from the Golden Danish line, carried in the factory's numbered shape chart as shape 35 and finished in sandblast. The egg is one of the classic Danish forms: a bowl of ovoid profile, fuller at the waist than at the rim, that softens the vertical geometry of a conventional billiard into something more organic. On a sandblasted example the blasting brings the grain structure into relief across that rounded surface, a treatment for which Danish factory work is particularly well known. Stanwell occupies a central position in the history of Danish pipe making. Its numbered shape system — of which 35 is one entry — allowed those designs to be reproduced consistently across finish lines, the Golden Danish among them. Dating rests here on attribution rather than documentation. The record preserves the line name, the shape number, and the pipe's presentation as a Danish estate piece; no factory stampings are transcribed in the source material, and Stanwell did not employ a date-coding system that would fix a year of manufacture from nomenclature alone. The shape number and line name situate the pipe within Stanwell's catalogued production, but a specific bracket cannot be responsibly asserted, and the era is accordingly entered as undetermined pending examination of the stampings themselves.
2023-06-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-06-01.
2023-06-04
Sold through eBay for USD 125. 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 (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 125sold 2023-06-04 · 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, 2023-06-01. 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.