Stanwell Without Model No.

[F4RM3R]

Just received a few Stanwells off eBay(88 billiard reg no and 109 royal rouge) but this freehand here doesn’t have a model number. I am familiar with Stanwell and have looked through their catalogs but haven’t found much info.

can anyone chime in and offer some insight into the dating or design? Much appreciated!

 

[OzPiper]

1970-1980's if I were to hazard a guess.

I have this Stanwell freehand which I bought new in the mid-70s because this was the first plateau topped freehand I'd seen. It is not one of my favourites, I have to say.

Stamped Stanwell, regd no. and Hand Made in Denmark. There is no model number as they are freehands and all different.

 

[Grangerous]

We know it’s from the old factory in Denmark. Does it have the Stanwell S and Crown on the stem?

 

[romaso]

The 63M had an army mount like that, same shape, but I think it had a ferrule on the shank. I have a bunch of shape 63, but not a 63M. That may be a handmade?

 

[F4RM3R]

We know it’s from the old factory in Denmark. Does it have the Stanwell S and Crown on the stem?

Mine doesn't have any S or S crown stamps.

 

[forloveoffreedom]

Nice score, can we see the others? Love me an old Stanwell. Congrats.

 

[F4RM3R]

The billiard is a reg no. 98 model and the bent apple is a royal rouge 109

 

[F4RM3R]

The model 98 billiard is missing the "made in denmark" stamp and just says "hand made" anyone got any info on when that could be from?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Freehands did not get model numbers, because the stummels were not mass produced. Companies that use model numbers are creating or ordering stummels in mass, and therefore the model numbers are used to indicate which is which.

Freehands are made one-ofs, each one is unique, so there is no need to assign them a number. They just make them, slap a stem on it, and call it done.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

The model 98 billiard is missing the "made in denmark" stamp and just says "hand made" anyone got any info on when that could be from?

It depends on where the pipe was sold as to whether EU origin stamps are required. Also, it could be a transition to the Italian factory. It's kind of hard to tell.

 

[mso489]

That's a good looking Stanwell freehand. I don't see them offered anymore. Nording still does them, and I have one of those, and I have an excellent Johs freehand with plateau on both the brim and the shank, a kind of tour de force on the shape, to me. Around the 70's, people tried to crank them out to catch the trend and some examples are pretty awful, clearly just slapped together. I think that helped subdue the shape. But a well-done freehand can be a beautiful briar, all those grooves and irregularities that are singular and pleasing to hold.