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8 photographsArchive Record FUH-T57D-YAB4-9
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 record documents a smooth-finished Canadian, shape 25, from the COUNT line of Kriswill, presented as a Danish estate pipe. The Canadian is one of the classic shank-forward designs of the pipe canon: essentially a billiard bowl carried on an elongated shank of oval cross-section, finished with a comparatively short stem. The proportions place most of the pipe's visual and physical length in the wood itself, a construction prized for the cool, dry smoke the long airway encourages and for the economy of the abbreviated mouthpiece. A smooth finish on such a shape leaves the grain of the stummel fully exposed along the extended shank, which is traditionally the showpiece surface of the form. The firm occupied an interesting position in Danish pipe history: while the celebrated Copenhagen ateliers were defining the freehand aesthetic, Kriswill supplied well-made factory pipes in both classical and Danish-modern idioms, exporting widely and helping to carry the reputation of Danish pipemaking to a broader market. Its output was organised into named lines, of which COUNT is one, with numbered shapes such as the 25 recorded here identifying the specific form within the catalogue. Dating rests on the identification supplied with the pipe rather than on a factory date code, as Kriswill, like most Danish factories, did not stamp its pipes with year marks. The attribution to the COUNT line and shape 25 is owner-stated, and the estate description places the pipe within the ordinary span of Kriswill production.
2023-05-09
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-05-09.
2023-05-24
Sold through eBay for USD 62. 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-20th century, within the Kri' -> undetermined; 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 62sold 2023-05-24 · 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 42 sales of Kriswill between 2015–2025 — median $59, most falling between $39 and $75.
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, 2023-05-09. 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. 8 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.