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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-RYXP-BABH-R
1987
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 Dublin in a sandblasted finish, identified by its owner as belonging to the firm's Pipe of the Year (POY) programme and dated to 1987. It entered the archive from a group of Danish estate pipes. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of Danish pipe making. This collaboration between workshop artisans and an industrial house gave Stanwell an outsized influence on the modern Danish school, spreading its clean, sculptural aesthetic to a worldwide audience at accessible prices. The Pipe of the Year series formalised this design-led identity: each year the firm released a distinct model produced only for that season, making the designation itself a dating device. A POY pipe is anchored to its year of issue in a way that ordinary catalogue shapes are not, and the 1987 attribution here rests on that annual-release convention as reported by the owner. The Dublin is one of the classic chart shapes — a bowl whose walls taper outward from heel to rim, giving a conical chamber and a forward-leaning, elegant profile. Danish makers frequently reinterpreted the Dublin with freer lines than their English counterparts, and it suited Stanwell's flowing house style well. The sandblasted treatment removes the softer wood from the 's surface, throwing the grain into craggy relief; beyond its tactile appeal, a blast is traditionally valued for reducing weight and revealing the ring grain and growth structure of the burl.
2023-06-10
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-06-10.
2023-06-19
Sold through eBay for USD 105. 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 (2 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 105sold 2023-06-19 · 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, 2023-06-10. 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. 9 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.