SOLD GROUND PLAN: Early 20th C. Paper Thin Brass Surveyors/Architects Stencil early 1900s carving complete with flounces and pleats

complete with flounces and pleats and bows at their necks

and with these almost wave-like patterns of decoration animating the rest of it

Simple as can be

" or "I have got a big sore on my face

with an early incarnation of the lettering still visible under the current hand-painted version

SOLD GROUND PLAN: Early 20th C. Paper Thin Brass Surveyors/Architects Stencil early 1900s carving complete with flounces and pleatsI find these old brass surveyors architects stencils so beautiful paper thin, finely made, and really shining rather like liquid gold in the light. I purchased a lot of them from a seller in England, and have broken them up into smaller thematic groups. These would have been used to annotate blueprints architectural renderings, but as a lover of found language I like them as small, evocative signs of sorts, which could be interesting in all sorts