SOLD Most Tender and Poignant 19th Century Hand-cut Iron July 4 Stencil kid made box They reference classic styles of

They reference classic styles of imperial porcelain

Maybe a pig or maybe just a creature of some child’s imagination

or sometimes "persuader"

and I've been talking to her (naming her "Helmet Head" along the way

On the bottom he has written his name in pencil -- which appears

SOLD Most Tender and Poignant 19th Century Hand-cut Iron July 4 Stencil kid made box They reference classic styles ofA humble thing but this is truly one of my favorite finds ever. The combination of the very old and weathered iron and the loss lack of a center to the "U" (and absence of a Y, too) and that freehand cut 4 floating above, off on its own, feels exactly right compositionally, symbolically, metaphorically, etc or representing Independence Day. Singularly and tenderly constructed, improvisational feeling but emphatic, eroding but enduring. For me this one