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9 photographsArchive Record FUH-WBEN-4T7C-F
circa 1982
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 smooth-finished straight billiard from Stanwell's Jubilee line, carrying the maker's shape number 12. The billiard is the foundational form of the classic pipe repertoire: a cylindrical bowl set at a right angle to a straight shank of roughly equal length, with the whole composition prized for balance and restraint. In a smooth finish, the form places the 's natural grain on open display rather than concealing it beneath sandblast or rustication, and Danish factories of Stanwell's stature selected their smooth-grade stummels accordingly. Stanwell occupies a central place in the history of Danish pipemaking. Stanwell's numbered shape chart, of which this pipe's '12' is a part, became one of the most recognisable systems in the industry. The dating of this example rests on the line itself. Commemorative lines of this kind are self-dating in a way most production pipes are not: whereas ordinary Stanwell output must be bracketed by logo styles and stamping conventions across decades, an anniversary issue can be tied confidently to the year it celebrates. This pipe therefore sits firmly at circa 1982, the transitional era when Stanwell still produced in Denmark and its mid-century design heritage remained fully intact. As an estate piece recovered from Danish sources, it documents the Jubilee commemoration in one of the most traditional shapes the factory offered.
2022-10-09
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2022-10-09.
2022-12-07
Sold through Etsy for USD 43. 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 (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 43sold 2022-12-07 · 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, 2022-10-09. 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. 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.