DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil wood blocks And those stockings

And those stockings

I believe this clown dates to the 1940s or so

A stern school mistress she seems to be

Plenty of stains to the card including from the glue used to mount it and one small black mark just above her head

) I found this and two other antique hand fans together

DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil wood blocks And those stockingsSix 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