Store with This End Up, Antique Brass Barrel Stencil dials animals on the other

animals on the other

dating back to the year my grandfather gifted us grandkids bags of walnuts

A striking image

11"x14" and in excellent condition

and the kids could probably using it for playing tug of war without breaking it

Store with This End Up, Antique Brass Barrel Stencil dials animals on the otherI clearly have a weakness for antique stencils bearing texts that make them interesting as signs of sorts now, and this is a great example. I presume it was made for painting signage on the lids of barrels, but am not sure what contents would specifically require storing one end up and opening from the other? I love that one can't look at it without imagining the object it implies, and especially the symbol at dead center, looking like an eye watching