GOLDEN ENGINE, Marvelously Evocative Old Handcut Brass Stencil unusual antique basket but it is the drawings

but it is the drawings I love

with dark mane showing on one side

with these glittery strawberries sparking like jewels in the light

but surely it could be used to root for any Hopkinton team now

which makes me feel the fortitude of this man

GOLDEN ENGINE, Marvelously Evocative Old Handcut Brass Stencil unusual antique basket but it is the drawingsI have to imagine this brass stencil was made to stencil GOLDEN ENGINE across the hood or maybe the sides of a race car many years ago, with the small pointing forward triangle over the N signaling full speed ahead! Perfectly executed in upper case italics, and with quite a patina, too. I found this in the Hudson River Valley with a note from the dealer that it had come from a prominent collection, but they didn't say whose. To my eye just about as