spengler · pipes & tobacco · est. 1881
spengler keeps the same four pipes in the window the year round. he calls them his retired men. the boxes above are real and full; the figurine in the middle has been there long enough to be its own customer.
the shop smells of tobacco that was bought decades ago. he no longer smokes. his wife objected late in life and then she died, and he kept the objection. the brass lamp was a wedding present and is the only thing in the window he would not sell.
field-note: the curl of smoke above the lamp is from outside — a man waiting for someone, two doors down.
hatter · a matchbox · smoke · ash · lampwick