KNITTING MACHINERY, Unusual and Excellent c. 1900 29 Inch Interestingly Patinated Brass Stencil naive apple painting replaced ball and this one

replaced ball and this one is punched in a bit at bottom

like a tabletop modernist sculpture when stood straight up

An iconic feeling snapshot of an iconic feeling late 1930s/early 1940s "Arizona Welcomes You" sign

make me think a bit of Little Miss Muffet on her tuffet

KNITTING MACHINERY, Unusual and Excellent c. 1900 29 Inch Interestingly Patinated Brass Stencil naive apple painting replaced ball and this oneYou know I love old brass stencils as objects and as found language, and what an unusual and unusually long! one this KNITTING MACHINERY stencil is. C. 1900 I believe, when commercial knitting made by knitting machines would have primarily been used for knitting underwear, socks and hosiery. (This "machine knitting" vastly expanded as the public taste for knitted fashion exploded in late 1910s early 1920s.) So an interesting piece of textile history