Antique SECONDS Stencil frank mann bowl done in pen

done in pen

this is one of the loveliest I've seen--stretching just over thirty inches long and terminating in an elegant ball in cage with a perfectly pointy tip

Along the bottom edge is a signature

and took out of the frame with in order to get around the glare while photographing it

Stamped MB on the bottom

Antique SECONDS Stencil frank mann bowl done in penThis may be my favorite thing I've found of late, which I perceive at least in part as a sort of "art without intent" object due to the absence of a divider on the "D", which has the effect of announcing it not as a perfect thing, but rather as a flawed one, a "second." As a lover of found language that resonates in different contexts, I also love it for all the other things that "seconds" might connote too seconds of time, second in line, second