AMERICAN PRODUCE, Big, Beautiful, Iconic Feeling Antique Brass Stencil tabletop whimsy 4 3/4" t x 2

4 3/4" t x 2 1/2" w x 1 1/4" d

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

with chess certainly an apt metaphor for the tactics of war

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

plus a key hole on the front--though there is no longer a key

AMERICAN PRODUCE, Big, Beautiful, Iconic Feeling Antique Brass Stencil tabletop whimsy 4 3/4" t x 2I 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