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6 photographsArchive Record FUH-QY3W-4HYB-3
circa 1982
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 Jubilee straight billiard in a smooth finish, carrying the factory shape number 52. The billiard is the foundational form of the classic pipe repertoire: a cylindrical bowl set at roughly a right angle to a straight shank, with proportions that most other shapes are measured against. In a smooth finish, the form displays the natural grain of the stummel without texture or carving, and Stanwell's smooth-finished production was traditionally reserved for cleaner blocks within each shape run. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of Danish pipe making. Shape 52 is one entry in that numbered catalogue, here executed as a straight billiard. The dating of this piece rests on its line designation rather than any date code, since Stanwell did not employ a systematic factory dating stamp. The Jubilee line, marked with the paired years 1942–1982, was issued to commemorate the company's fortieth anniversary. That commemorative marking functions as a self-dating inscription of unusual precision for a production pipe: it ties manufacture to the anniversary year itself. On that basis the example can be placed with confidence at circa 1982, produced in Denmark during the period when Stanwell's factory operations were still fully Danish, before later shifts in the company's production arrangements. The pipe reached the archive as a Danish estate piece, and its documentation follows the owner's stated description of brand, line, shape, and number.
2022-11-13
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-11-13.
2022-12-17
Sold through Etsy for USD 76. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 76sold 2022-12-17 · 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 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, 2022-11-13. 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. 6 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.