THE STAN LAUREL MEMORIAL FIST PIPE meerschaum pipe circa 1980
As a kid my Saturday AM routine was always the same. Breakfast, housekeeping chores, cartoons till eleven followed by an hour of Laurel and Hardy. My dad had watched them in the movie theaters as part of the Saturday matinees they had back in the '30s when he was a kid. The older I got the more aware I was of the craftsmanship that went into their movies, plus they had Stan's connection to the old English music hall traditions and material that produced Charlie Chaplin.
He did a sight gag where he made a fist, packed it with tobacco and smoked it through his thumb. This pipe is an homage to that bit.
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