AMERICAN PRODUCE, Big, Beautiful, Iconic Feeling Antique Brass Stencil old folk art houses black against white

black against white

among other things

Nice aged condition and in good structural shape

but later that tree was discovered to have been grafted

Gorgeous aging to the paint

AMERICAN PRODUCE, Big, Beautiful, Iconic Feeling Antique Brass Stencil old folk art houses black against whiteI found this one in New Hampshire, near the Vermont border, hanging on a white wall with a bit of air around it and it struck me as just the most perfect thing elegant, radiant, and iconic feeling in its spare concision: AMERICAN PRODUCE. With the letters placed, and spaced, just right in relation to the hanging tab, as if arching across the face of a clock, 12 3 and 6 9. And of course these two words, singularly and together, open up a whole world of