FIRE CHIEF, Unusual and Excellent Old Brass Stencil with Aptly Black Patina erotic portrait But best is the interior

But best is the interior of the chamber pot

A very sweet old turned wood jar

became popular in China during the Song Dynasty (960-1279)

so it also seems perhaps just a whimsy

where Artemis was venerated as the goddess of nature and ruler of wild beasts

FIRE CHIEF, Unusual and Excellent Old Brass Stencil with Aptly Black Patina erotic portrait But best is the interiorI love old brass stencils bearing evocative words and phrases and am always looking for them, good for hanging like signs and fun to situate. This one I was delighted to find this week in Manchester, NH. I have 100% never come across a stencil reading FIRE CHIEF before, and curious that hyphen, too. As these were typically used for stenciling crates, and most often apple crates, it occurred to me that perhaps Fire Chief was the name of an apple