Sea Captain Pipe Rest

Object No. 74 of 100

[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Michael Atkinson, here. ]

… Somebody's grandfather's pipe stand, back when men smoked pipes that they cared to buy handcrafted out of specific hardwoods, made by Europeans, maybe old  artisans they found in narrow-street shops while away at war as young men, all grandfathers now or actually grandfathers years back, they're all dead now of course, but the pipes weren't made in a factory but at a bench, carved and sanded, out of...