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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-WMRV-6QQD-2
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 Danish freehand in the bent Dublin form, worked to a smooth finish with the plateau — the naturally craggy outer crust of the burl — retained across the rim. The pairing is characteristic of the Danish freehand idiom: a polished body that follows the grain of the block, crowned by an untouched plateau top that testifies to the wood's origin at the surface of the burl. The Dublin shape itself is defined by a bowl whose walls taper outward from heel to rim, here rendered in a bent configuration that drops the stummel below the line of the stem. The pipe carries the numeral 5, a grade mark within the Karl Erik factory grading system, by which the workshop sorted its output into tiers according to the quality of the and finish. Karl Erik pipes were the work of Karl Erik Ottendahl of Aalborg, Denmark, a largely self-taught carver who turned from a trade in lithography to full-time pipe making and became one of the most prolific producers of Danish freehands, supplying handmade pipes in the Danish style at accessible grades across several decades of production. This example is therefore recorded to that bracket — a Danish freehand of the Ottendahl era, its grade stamp and form its principal identifying evidence.
2023-04-24
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2023-04-24.
2023-04-30
Sold through Etsy for USD 115. 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 'c. 1960s–early 2000s; 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 115sold 2023-04-30 · 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 21 sales of Karl Erik between 2015–2026 — median $59, most falling between $35 and $149.
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, 2023-04-24. 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.