Store with This End Up, Antique Brass Barrel Stencil dials Clearly once framed

Clearly once framed

dating back to the year my grandfather gifted us grandkids bags of walnuts

There is a rough patch/surface splitting  at center top but once hung barely noticeable

It's seen some use

They link up however one wants to arrange them

Store with This End Up, Antique Brass Barrel Stencil dials Clearly once framedI clearly have a weakness for antique stencils bearing texts that make them interesting as signs of sorts now, and this is a great example. I presume it was made for painting signage on the lids of barrels, but am not sure what contents would specifically require storing one end up and opening from the other? I love that one can't look at it without imagining the object it implies, and especially the symbol at dead center, looking like an eye watching