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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-TVQ5-DTG3-E
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 bent Apple from the Crown Viking line of Winslow, the Danish house associated with Poul Winslow, a carver who trained in the workshop of Preben Holm before establishing production under his own name. The pipe carries a partially rusticated finish, a treatment in which portions of the bowl are carved or textured into a rough, tactile surface while the remaining wood is left smooth, so that the two surfaces play against one another across the stummel. This mixed-finish approach is a hallmark of Danish workshop pipes, allowing attractive smooth panels to coexist with rusticated areas and giving each piece an individual character. The Apple is one of the classic chart shapes: a rounded bowl fuller and more spherical than a Billiard, here executed in a bent configuration in which the shank and stem curve downward and back toward the smoker, lowering the bowl's carry and lending the profile a relaxed, sculptural line. Danish makers of the post-war generation frequently reinterpreted such classic English shapes with softer transitions and freer handwork, and this example sits within that tradition. Winslow's Crown series functions as the house's serial-production tier, made in the Danish idiom and stamped by line rather than by an individual date system. Within the archive it stands as a representative example of Danish serial craftsmanship — a classic shape, a characteristically Scandinavian mixed finish, and a line attribution that anchors it to one of Denmark's recognised post-Holm workshops.
2023-05-25
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-05-25.
2023-07-16
Sold through eBay for USD 125. 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 'Late 20th to early 21st century' -> undetermined; 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 125sold 2023-07-16 · 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 17 sales of Winslow between 2019–2026 — median $145, most falling between $79 and $215.
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, 2023-05-25. 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.