DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil bird with flowers I'd call it Japanese deco

I'd call it Japanese deco and guess 1940s or so

Sight: 13 x 10 3/4

I've developed something on an obsession for ancient Roman glass

and then buried deeper in the earth what I imagine is a giant tuber

to protect them from the cats

DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil bird with flowers I'd call it Japanese decoSix months ago or so, I found the counterpoint stencil to this one GOLDEN ENGINE in the Hudson River Valley; this week I returned to the same shop and found DARK ENGINE waiting for me! As before, the dealer noted that this had come from a prominent area collection, from which I guess they are doling out one stencil at a time. Before I imagined that Golden Engine had been used to stencil the hood or maybe the sides of a race car many years ago, and