SOLD Most Tender and Poignant 19th Century Hand-cut Iron July 4 Stencil antique molding With original wood backings

With original wood backings

Something super satisfying about these coats

The brass spinners at their centers make for even more fun

and stems and protozoa

or just to add to the box collection

SOLD Most Tender and Poignant 19th Century Hand-cut Iron July 4 Stencil antique molding With original wood backingsA humble thing but this is truly one of my favorite finds ever. The combination of the very old and weathered iron and the loss lack of a center to the "U" (and absence of a Y, too) and that freehand cut 4 floating above, off on its own, feels exactly right compositionally, symbolically, metaphorically, etc or representing Independence Day. Singularly and tenderly constructed, improvisational feeling but emphatic, eroding but enduring. For me this one