Store with This End Up, Antique Brass Barrel Stencil homemade tool box Early-ish 20th c

Early-ish 20th c

charcoal on laid paper

Often one sees these bottle whimsies with various tools inside

which would fall in to the genre of a a transformation carving

Pretty rare to find (rather amazing for the glass to have endured some 200 years

Store with This End Up, Antique Brass Barrel Stencil homemade tool box Early-ish 20th cI 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