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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-RRN4-M2J6-K
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
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 smooth-finished straight billiard bearing the Royal Danish name and the shape number 312, identified as a product of Stanwell of Denmark. The billiard is the foundational shape of the pipe maker's repertoire: a cylindrical bowl of roughly equal height and shank length, joined at a right angle to a straight shank and stem. In its smooth finish, the form presents the 's natural grain without rustication or sandblasting, and the straight configuration keeps the airway on a single uninterrupted line from chamber to bit — a geometry long favoured for its simplicity of engineering and ease of maintenance. The three-digit shape number follows the factory's numbering convention, by which each catalogue form carried a fixed numeral regardless of finish. Dating pipes of this line depends on the brand's documented lifespan rather than any factory date code, since Stanwell and its sub-brands did not stamp year marks on their products. Royal Danish production is associated with the middle and later decades of the twentieth century, and the combination of the brand stamp with a Stanwell-pattern shape number places this example within that span. It is accordingly bracketed to the mid-to-late twentieth century, on the strength of the owner-reported markings and the line's known production history, and it stands in the archive as a representative document of Denmark's factory pipe tradition.
2024-04-22
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-04-22.
2025-01-01
Sold through Etsy for USD 55. 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 (era 'Mid-to-late 20th century; 1 unsupported/absence sentence(s) removed from the essay).
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 55sold 2025-01-01 · 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 267 sales of Royal Danish between 2016–2026 — median $63, most falling between $33 and $100.
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, 2024-04-22. 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.