LAUREL & HARDY: LAUREL STAN (1890-1965) & HARDY OLIVER (1892-1957) English and American film comedians. A wonderful and extraordinarily large vintage signed and inscribed sepia 18.5 x 14.5 photograph by both Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy individually, the classic image depicting the duo in head and shoulders poses together, each wearing their trademark bowler hats. Photograph by Clarence 'Stax' Graves and signed ('Stax') by him in pencil beneath the image. Signed by Laurel ('Stan') and Hardy ('Oliver') in fountain pen ink with their first names to the lower photographer's mount and inscribed in Laurel's hand, 'To Billy & Gladys, Our best wishes & kind thoughts always!', and further dated 1934 by Laurel. Attractively framed and glazed to an overall size of 22 x 18. Signed photographs of this size and exceptional quality are very rarely encountered. EX Clarence 'Stax' Graves (1885-1972) American still photographer associated with the Hal Roach Studios.