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

but it is the drawings I love

Approx 16 blank pages at the end

with these glittery strawberries sparking like jewels in the light

to modern and contemporary painting and prints

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

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