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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-W67N-M2R9-N
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 Stanwell Private Collection pipe in the maker's shape 64: a smooth-finished bent form retaining a plateau crown, the natural rough-textured outer surface of the burl left in place at the rim as a decorative feature. The bore accepts a 9mm filter, the system most closely associated with Continental European pipe smoking and standard equipment on many Danish and German production pipes. It entered the archive as an estate piece, previously smoked. Stanwell occupies a foundational place in Danish pipe history. Stanwell is particularly noted for commissioning shape designs from the leading figures of the Danish school, including Sixten Ivarsson and Tom Eltang, so that its numbered shape chart reads as a survey of mid-century Scandinavian pipe design. The Private Collection line sits among the firm's upper-tier series, presenting select in refined executions above the standard catalogue ranges. The plateau-topped bent presented here is characteristic of the freer, more organic side of the Danish idiom: a curved profile that keeps the sculptural quality of the raw burl visible at the crown while the body is finished smooth to display the grain. Dating a Stanwell requires context rather than a code, since the factory never used a systematic dating stamp. On the documentation accompanying this example, the honest conclusion is an undetermined era within the life of the Private Collection line, recorded as a Danish estate piece.
2022-09-21
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-09-21.
2022-11-11
Sold through Etsy for USD 99. No buyer is recorded.
2026-08-27
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 (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 99sold 2022-11-11 · 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 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, 2022-09-21. 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. 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.