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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-WFJ8-AH5H-M
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 documents a Svendborg Deluxe bulldog, shape number 322, presented as a Danish estate pipe. The piece takes the slightly bent bulldog form in a smooth finish, a configuration in which the classic elements of the shape family are on display: a bowl whose upper and lower halves meet in a defined waist, traditionally articulated by beadlines cut around the bowl's widest point, carried on a diamond-section shank. The gentle bend places the example between the fully straight bulldog and the more deeply curved variants, a compromise favoured for its balance in the hand and jaw.
Svendborg takes its name from the town of Svendborg on the Danish island of Funen, and the brand belongs to the broader Danish pipe-making tradition that rose to international prominence in the second half of the twentieth century. Danish workshops of this period became known both for freehand experimentation and for disciplined, well-executed renderings of the classic English shape chart; the bulldog seen here belongs firmly to the latter current. The Deluxe designation marks this piece within a named line of the brand's production, and the three-digit shape number reflects the systematic numbering conventions common among Danish factory and workshop makers.
Dating rests on the character of the stampings and the estate designation rather than on any factory date code, as Danish makers of this type did not employ systematic year-coding on their pipes. The shape number 322 and the Deluxe line stamp identify the model within the catalogue, but they do not fix a year of manufacture. The record therefore assigns an honest era bracket of undetermined, with the pipe standing in the archive as a representative example of the Svendborg Deluxe line and of the Danish interpretation of the bulldog shape.
2023-04-12
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-12.
2024-03-25
Sold through Etsy for USD 105. No buyer is recorded.
2026-07-29
5 checklist facts recorded under Faridunhill's standing declaration of shop practice (2026-07-29).
This record is append-only. Nothing is deleted — a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, and both stay visible.
USD 105sold 2024-03-25 · 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 47 sales of Svendborg between 2018–2026 — median $75, most falling between $40 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, 2023-04-12. 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.