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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-QRWH-VE39-Y
Era 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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 pipe is a Ben Wade 'Large Egg' shape, carved from plateau . The form is a classic Danish interpretation of the egg, characterized by a rounded, organic bowl that flows seamlessly into a shank, creating a harmonious, freehand silhouette. The use of plateau indicates the carver selected a block with the natural, rugged top of the burl, often left on the rim for aesthetic texture. The pipe is attributed to the hand of Danish carver Preben Holm during the period when the Ben Wade name was used for pipes made in Denmark. The primary evidence for this attribution and dating comes from the owner's statement and the faint remnants of stampings on the pipe itself. Only the letter 'B' from 'Ben Wade' and a 'D' from 'Danish' are reported as legible, which aligns with stampings from this production era. The combination of the large egg form, plateau finish, and these stamp traces places this example within the broader context of Danish freehand pipe making under the Ben Wade marque.
2020-12-27
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2020-12-27.
2020-12-29
Sold through eBay for USD 135. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
6 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 (parts.bowl_material 'briar' removed; era 'Preben Holm Danish era' -> undetermined).
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 135sold 2020-12-29 · 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 2299 sales of Ben Wade between 2015–2026 — median $48, most falling between $25 and $115.
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, 2020-12-27. 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. 10 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.