SOLD Most Tender and Poignant 19th Century Hand-cut Iron July 4 Stencil kid made box the year of the snake--and

the year of the snake--and what a beautiful thing

just out of this world

On the bottom he has written his name in pencil -- which appears

and I've been talking to her (naming her "Helmet Head" along the way

From what I’ve found

SOLD Most Tender and Poignant 19th Century Hand-cut Iron July 4 Stencil kid made box the year of the snake--andA 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