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3 photographsArchive Record FUH-UKM5-V8JC-F
Undetermined; maker active early 1970s–late 1970s and from 2011 onward
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
Faridunhill standing declaration
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 preserves a reference example attributed to Bent Nielsen, the Danish pipe maker known as Benner, whose career traces a path through several of the most storied workshops of the Danish artisan tradition. Born in 1944 in the northern part of Jutland, Nielsen was raised in the Roskilde district and settled in Tune, a small village south of Roskilde. He subsequently worked for the pipe maker Zetterwig before being engaged by S. Bang to supply pipes for the German market — a turning point, as the German importer sought classic shapes rather than the fancy forms Nielsen had prepared. He answered that challenge by mastering the classical repertoire, and it is for classic shapes, rather than the exuberant freehands of his early years, that his name is now chiefly known. He later made pipes for Pipe-Dan, where he met Tom Eltang. His retirement from carpentry at the beginning of 2011 restored pipe making to the centre of his working life.
2023-10-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-10-21.
2026-07-29
6 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 (3 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.
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, 2023-10-21. 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. 3 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.