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1 photographsArchive Record FUH-QM8T-MV4F-5
1992
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 Pipe of the Year from 1992, executed in a sandblasted finish on the cutty shape and documented among the archive's Danish estate pipes. The Pipe of the Year programme sits within that tradition — an annual limited-edition release in which a single design is issued for one year only, often in a choice of finishes, making each edition a snapshot of the factory's design direction at a fixed moment. The cutty is among the oldest shapes in the pipe-making canon, descended directly from the clay pipes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is characterised by a forward-canted bowl, a slender shank flowing into the bowl at an angle, and frequently a small heel or foot at the bowl's base recalling the spur of its clay ancestors. Rendering this historical form in sandblasted , as here, marries an antique silhouette with a texture that follows the natural grain structure of the wood, a treatment the Danish factories handled with particular fluency. Dating this pipe is unusually straightforward for a factory piece. Because the Pipe of the Year designation binds each design to a single annual issue, the identification of this example as the 1992 edition fixes its production to that year. On the owner's attribution, the pipe is therefore placed firmly in 1992, within Stanwell's mature Danish production era.
2023-07-26
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-07-26.
2023-07-26
Sold through eBay for USD 85. 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).
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 85sold 2023-07-26 · 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, 2023-07-26. 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.