Early 20th C. Paper Thin Brass Surveyors/Architects Stencils - Set # Four morn with the more detailed windows

with the more detailed windows

What I love most are the drawings on the inside covers- two crude smiling faces at front

were used to store ingredients used for betel chewing

The simmering pots on the stove with flames below

Early 20th C. Paper Thin Brass Surveyors/Architects Stencils - Set # Four morn with the more detailed windowsI find these old brass surveyors architects stencils so beautiful paper thin, finely made, and really shining rather like liquid gold in the light. I purchased a lot of them from a seller in England, and have broken them up into smaller thematic groups. These would have been used to annotate blueprints architectural renderings, but as a lover of found language I like them as small, evocative signs of sorts, which could be interesting in all sorts