Antique Brass KING Apple Stencil, H.L McPherson, Boston cased photo filling me with total joy

filling me with total joy

such that the silhouette of what are surely meant to be feathers on a Native American figure also could be read as bunny ears

The paper has a little bit of a sheen

and I'd like to think the painting was done on wood from a fallen tree removed from these very banks

Antique Brass KING Apple Stencil, H.L McPherson, Boston cased photo filling me with total joyNow and again I come across old stencils cut for painting apple barrels or crates, but I believe this is the first KING I've seen, and as a lover of found language, how to resist? A gift fit for a king, I'd say and good in all sorts of contexts. (The King apple, red with yellow stripes and also known as the Tompkins King, was long thought to have originated at Jacksonville in Tompkins County, NY, but later that tree was discovered to have been