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10 photographsArchive Record FUH-XEXM-Q2WT-A
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 documents a Kriswill Count in shape 330, a smooth-finished straight bulldog attributed by its owner to Danish estate origin. The bulldog is one of the most recognisable classical shapes in the pipe canon: a bowl formed of two converging cone-like sections meeting at a central ridge, traditionally accented with one or two incised rings at the widest point, mated to a diamond-profile shank. In its straight configuration, as here, the shape presents a compact, geometric silhouette that rewards precise machining and clean symmetry — qualities the Danish factories of the mid-twentieth century made a point of pride. Kriswill occupies a notable place in the history of Danish pipe making. While the celebrated Danish carvers pursued freehand sculptural work, Kriswill supplied well-made factory pipes in both classical and Danish-modern idioms, organised into named lines with numbered shapes. The Count designation identifies one of these catalogue lines, and the number 330 places this piece within the factory's standardised shape chart, a system that allowed consistent reproduction of a given form across production runs. Dating a Kriswill pipe relies on circumstantial rather than coded evidence, as the factory did not employ a year-specific date-stamping system. Attribution therefore rests on the brand and line stampings themselves, read against the firm's known operating window. It stands in the archive as a representative specimen of Danish factory pipe making in the classical bulldog form.
2024-04-01
Logged from the Faridunhill archive — photographed and posted on Instagram, 2024-04-01.
2024-08-13
Sold through Etsy for USD 65. 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 'mid-20th century, within the Kri' -> undetermined; 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 65sold 2024-08-13 · 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 42 sales of Kriswill between 2015–2025 — median $59, most falling between $39 and $75.
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, 2024-04-01. 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.