DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil wood blocks and the gold paint

and the gold paint

) I found this and two other antique hand fans together

daguerreotype exhibits surface wipes and is a bit light

and his papers were left to Hamilton College

And those stockings

DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil wood blocks and the gold paintSix months ago or so, I found the counterpoint stencil to this one GOLDEN ENGINE in the Hudson River Valley; this week I returned to the same shop and found DARK ENGINE waiting for me! As before, the dealer noted that this had come from a prominent area collection, from which I guess they are doling out one stencil at a time. Before I imagined that Golden Engine had been used to stencil the hood or maybe the sides of a race car many years ago, and