AMERICAN PRODUCE, Big, Beautiful, Iconic Feeling Antique Brass Stencil tabletop whimsy evoking a bee skep as

evoking a bee skep as much as a home for a canary--and of course I love the bird perched atop it

then was cut (pretty irregularly) into blocks as a gift for “David

with chess certainly an apt metaphor for the tactics of war

I'd be inclined to keep it nearby to use for herding human companions

There is a very neat patch to the hide of the drum on one side—perfectly done

AMERICAN PRODUCE, Big, Beautiful, Iconic Feeling Antique Brass Stencil tabletop whimsy evoking a bee skep asI 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