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14 photographsArchive Record FUH-QNE4-4EDH-7
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.
No dating evidence has been recorded on this example yet.
Owner-stated. Facts as reported with the piece; not yet independently corroborated.Attribution is our documented expert opinion with its evidence — never a certification.
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.
Johs in script and HAND MADE IN DENMARK mark this bent pickaxe as the work of the Danish carver Mogens Johansen.
This is a bent pickaxe pipe with a smooth bowl, a light sandblast on the bottom of the bowl only, a vulcanite saddle stem and a fishtail bit. There is no filter. It is a pre-smoked estate pipe in good condition.
THE MARKS - Johs, in script - HAND MADE IN DENMARK
THE MAKER As noted when the pipe came in: Mogens "Johs" Johansen lives and works in Frederikshavn, Denmark, and makes about two thousand pipes each year. Many of his shapes may look familiar, because he carved many pipes for Bjarne. Many of his shapes are variations on Danish billiards, brandies, Dublins and freehands, finished smooth, sandblasted, rusticated or with a mix of these textures. We hold no dating record for Johs pipes, so we give no year.
THE SHAPE A pickaxe is a geometric shape: the bottom of the bowl comes to a sharp, pointed base, and the shank meets the bowl in the middle of its side rather than at the bottom. On this pipe the bowl is smooth, and only the pointed bottom is lightly sandblasted, which sets the two textures against each other. The bent vulcanite saddle stem ends in a fishtail bit, which flattens and widens toward the tip.
Condition: pre-smoked, in good condition, with darkening on the rim; please check the photographs, which show the pipe from every side, the chamber, the stem taken out, and the stamps close up.
THE MEASUREMENTS - Length: 131 mm (5.16 in) - Bowl height: 57 mm (2.24 in) - Bowl width: 34 mm (1.34 in) - Chamber diameter: 20 mm (0.79 in) - Chamber depth: 41 mm (1.61 in) - Weight: 33 g (1.16 oz)
2026-10-17
Logged from the Faridunhill shop - photographed and listed on faridunhill.com, 2026-10-17.
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
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.
Faridunhill shop post, 2026-10-17. 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. 14 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.